Posted on 11/23/2022 9:46:22 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
ROME — Pope Francis tied Russia’s war on Ukraine to Joseph Stalin’s 1930s Holodomor, when the Soviet leader engineered a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.
“Let us pray for peace in the world, and for an end to all conflicts, with a special thought for the terrible suffering of the dear and martyred people of Ukraine,” the pontiff told pilgrims and tourists gathered in the Vatican Wednesday for his weekly general audience.
“This Saturday is the anniversary of the terrible Holodomor genocide, the extermination by hunger in 1932-33 artificially caused by Stalin,” the pope continued. “Let us pray for the victims of this genocide and let us pray for all Ukrainians, the children, the women and the elderly, the babies who are today suffering the martyrdom of aggression.”
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South American Jesuits are trash.
Once I agree with the Pope.
Oh please. Frankie is an idiot.
“The so called Soviet Holodomor of Ukraine was happening in 1930s in the parts that Poland annexed from Russia in 1918-1920:
New York, the Ukrainian émigré newspaper “Ukrainian Shchodennі Visti” of those days are full of headlines: “15,000 children in Transcarpathian Ukraine..”
And more:
https://twitter.com/elenaevdokimov7/status/1469031206771576834
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