Due to COVID-19, a private memorial took place Tuesday outside the legislative building in Regina to honour those who perished during the man-made Ukraine famine in 1932-1933.

Flowers were placed to honour the victims of Holodomor at the foot of the memorial statue in Wascana Park. The statue is an exact copy of Petro Drozdowsky’s “Bitter Memories of Childhood” statue. It was erected in Wascana Park in 2015. Saskatchewan was the first jurisdiction in North America to recognize the genocide.

In 1932-1933, the Soviet Union imposed a famine that led to the death of 10 million people. Crops were seized in the midst of a record harvest and people were prohibited from leaving their communities in search of food. Holodomor means extermination by hunger in Ukrainian.