BERLIN (Reuters) -Lawmakers from Germany's ruling coalition and opposition want to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, a genocide, according to a draft motion seen by Reuters.
The draft describes the Soviet leadership's attempts to control and suppress farmers as well as Ukrainian culture and language through hunger and repression.
This "from today's perspective, suggests a historical-political classification as genocide.
According to German media reports, the draft will be debated and passed in the Bundestag lower house of parliament next week.
Romania, Ireland and Moldova are among the countries that have already declared the Holodomor to be a genocide.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted that he was grateful to Germany for what he called a milestone resolution.
(Reporting by Sabine Siebold and Alexander Ratz, writing by Miranda Murray, editing by Rachel More and Philippa Fletcher). »
