{"id":14130,"date":"2022-11-23T09:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=14130"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:03:00","slug":"pope-francis-compares-russias-war-against-ukraine-to-a-devastating-stalin-era-famine-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=14130","title":{"rendered":"“Pope Francis compares Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine to a devastating Stalin-era famine”–The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

—By <\/span>Gaia Pianigiani, Nov. 23, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

The comparison to Stalin\u2019s decision to let millions in Ukraine starve represents one of the pope\u2019s strongest condemnations yet of the Russian invasion.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Yara Nardi\/Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Pope Francis on Wednesday compared the war in Ukraine to the \u201cterrible Holodomor genocide\u201d of the 1930s, when the policies of the Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin, caused a devastating famine in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The pontiff\u2019s comparison of Moscow\u2019s attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine to Stalin\u2019s decision to let millions in Ukraine starve represents one of his strongest condemnations yet of the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet 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,\u201d Pope Francis said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter\u2019s square. \u201cAnd let us think of war-torn Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pontiff then asked that people join Ukraine this Saturday in commemorating \u201cthe terrible Holodomor genocide, the extermination by hunger of 1932-33 artificially caused by Stalin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cLet 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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