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Pope Francis likened the war in Ukraine to Stalin’s Holodomor “genocide” in the early 1930s during his Wednesday General Audience at the Vatican.
Francis remarked on the anniversary of the Holodomor, a man-made famine under Josef Stalin’s rule in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, to his audience in Vatican City.
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“Saturday begins the anniversary of the terrible genocide of the Holodomor, the extermination by starvation artificially caused by Stalin between 1932-1933,” Francis said. “Let us pray for the victims of this genocide, and let us pray for so many Ukrainians, children, women, elderly, babies, who today are suffering the martyrdom of aggression.”
The Holodomor is recognized as a genocide by only 16 countries, including the United States and the Vatican City.
Remembrances of the Holodomor are typically observed on the fourth Saturday of November. An estimated 3.3 million to 3.9 million people died in the artificial famine, per the New York Times.
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The comments are not the first time Francis has vocally opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At a religious conference in September, Francis said that God would not support the Russian war against Ukraine.
