; that thousands have been shot by the government and hundreds of thousands exiled … ; Whereas, in May 1934, former United States Congressman Hamilton Fish (NY) introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives (H. Res. 399, 73d Congress, 2d Session), which called for the condemnation of the Government of the former Soviet Union for its acts of destruction of the Ukrainian people; Whereas Public Law 99–180 , signed into law on December 13, 1985, established the Commission on the Ukraine Famine to conduct a study to expand the world’s knowledge of the famine and provide the American public with a better understanding of the former Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role in the Ukraine famine; Whereas the final report of the United States Government’s Commission on the Ukraine Famine, concluded that the victims were starved to death in a man-made famine and that Joseph Stalin and those around him committed genocide against Ukrainians in 1932–1933 ; Whereas with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, archival documents became available that confirmed the deliberate and premeditated deadly nature of the famine, and that exposed the atrocities committed by the Soviet Government against the Ukrainian people; Whereas the Parliament of Ukraine passed on November 28, 2006, law No.: N 376–V About the 1932–1933 Holodomor in Ukraine that gave official recognition to the Famine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people; Whereas the Congress passed and the President of the United States signed Public Law 109–340 on October 13, 2006, authorizing the Government of Ukraine to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the victims of the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932–1933 , which was officially dedicated in November 2015; Whereas the Government of Ukraine and the Ukrainian communities in the United States and worldwide continue their efforts to secure greater international awareness and understanding of the 1932–1933 tragedy