Whereas, in 1932 and 1933, millions of Ukrainians perished from a famine engineered by the former Soviet Union, designed to break the Ukrainian’s resistance to communist occupation and to provide a cover for a campaign of repression and persecution carried out by the Soviet Union against the citizens and culture of Ukraine; Whereas the Soviet Union forced the people of Ukraine to relinquish their land, personal property, and housing to collective farms and then confiscated grain harvests, starving the men, women, and children of Ukraine; Whereas the Soviet Union sealed the borders of Ukraine to prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid and to prevent Ukrainians from escaping; Whereas the entire nation of Ukraine suffered from the prolonged famine, resulting in the death of nearly a quarter of the rural population of Ukraine; Whereas title V of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986 ( Public Law 99–180 ; 99 Stat. 1157), signed into law on December 13, 1985, established the Commission on the Ukraine Famine to conduct a study of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933 in order to expand the world’s knowledge of the famine and provide the American public with a better understanding of the Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role in it; Whereas the Commission on the Ukraine Famine, Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine 1932–1933: Report to Congress, adopted by the Commission, April 19, 1988, and submitted to Congress April 22, 1988, found that in 1932 and 1933, the Government of the Soviet Union had committed genocide against the Ukrainian people; Whereas with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, archival documents confirmed the premeditated nature of the famine and exposed the atrocities suffered by the Ukrainian people; Whereas Ukraine’s law N 376–V titled About the 1932–1933 Holodomor in Ukraine of November 28, 2006, gave official recognition to the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people