As part of the project “Side by Side: United Communities,” on 21 November 2025, on the eve of Holodomor Remembrance Day, an interregional event was held — an online meeting between the Sviatohirsk and Chemerivtsi communities to honor the memory of the victims of the Holodomor.
The event was joined by specialists from the Department of Family, Youth and National-Patriotic Education of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, employees of the Chemerivtsi division of the archival department of the Kamianets-Podilskyi District State Administration, and representatives of structural units of the Sviatohirsk City Council and the Chemerivtsi Settlement Council.
The invited speakers emphasized that due to its anti-Ukrainian intent and the scale of its implementation, the famine of 1932–1933 became the most horrific weapon of mass extermination and social enslavement of the Ukrainian population used by the totalitarian communist regime. In addition to the physical killing of millions of people, the genocide destroyed the traditional Ukrainian way of life. The famine became a weapon of mass biological destruction of Ukrainians, disrupted the nation’s genetic heritage for decades, and led to moral and psychological changes in the consciousness of Ukrainians.
The interregional online meeting became an important step in preserving the memory of the millions of victims of the 1932–1933 Holodomor. The joint format of two regions highlighted the inseparability of Ukrainian historical memory and the importance of community unity in confronting ideological threats.
Speakers noted that in today’s conditions of full-scale war, when Russia, as the successor state of the Soviet regime, once again attempts to destroy the Ukrainian nation and its identity, remembrance of the Holodomor serves as an act of resistance and a symbol of our resilience.