It's been 83 years since more than four million Ukrainians died during the Holodomor, a famine between 1932 and 1933 that has been recognized as genocide by the province of Alberta. The Holodomor genocide was engineered by Joseph Stalin to starve Ukrainians and crush the country's independence movement. He read aloud from a poem he wrote about the famine, during Saturday's Holodomor commemoration at Edmonton City Hall. Candles were lit to recognize the 83rd anniversary of Holodomor. (Emily Fitzpatrick/CBC)MLA Gene Zwozdesky introduced a bill in 2008 making Alberta the third Canadian province to recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide.

Source: CBC News November 27, 2016 02:03 UTC