As Ukraine and the world marked 90th commemoration of the Holodomor - a man-made famine engineered by Joseph Stalin to crush resistance to collectivization and Soviet power in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 - Georgian voices were almost nowhere to be heard.
Although Georgia did join the European Union’s statement on the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, alongside EU candidate countries, neither of its top officials, nor Government agencies made any statements.
No statements of any kind were published on twitter accounts, Facebook pages, or websites of Georgia’s Prime Minister, Ministry and Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Speaker of Parliament.
This contrasts sharply with loud statements heard from political leaders and top officials in both western and eastern Europe, along with the United States.
Germany’s President Frank Walter Steinmeier, one of the key figures of Russia-first approach in the past has backed recognition of Holodomor as genocide by the German Bundestag, set to vote on the motion in the near future.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki even visited Kyiv to take part in ceremony honoring the Holodomor victims.
US President Joe Biden also made a statement honoring the memory of victims and reaffirming the US support to Ukraine’s effort to resist the Russian aggression.
Neither Georgian Prime Minister, nor Foreign Minister visited Kyiv once since the full-fledged Russian invasion begun, with only Parliament’s speaker paying one visit in April.
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