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4 2 4 C A N A D A | R E G I N A Holodomor Statue— “Bitter Memories of Childhood” Regina. The monument to the victims of the Holodomor was unveiled to the public on 12 May 2015. The volunteer group of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, an association of the Canadian-Ukrainian exile community in Canada, played a major role in the implemen- tation of the project. The bronze sculpture cre- ated by sculptor Petro Drozdowsky is a life-size figure of an emaciated girl. Looking into the distance, she holds three ears of grain in her hands crossed in front of her chest. The sculpture is an exact replica of the “Bitter Memories of Childhood” statue which stands at the entrance to the “Holodomor Victims Memorial” National Museum in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The monument com- memorates the several million Ukrainian vic- tims of the catastrophic famine of 1932 /33 who lost their lives during the forced collectivisa- tion of the agricultural economy, “dekulakisa- tion” and the brutal grain procurement meas- ures of the Soviet government. Inscription English: Bitter Memories of Childhood // This monument commemorates the millions of victims of the / enforced starvation by Stalin’s Communist regime during the / Holodomor famine Genocide in Ukraine 1932–1933.//On May 7, 2008 the Saskatchewan Legislature passed Bill 40, / the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day Holodomor Statue— “Bitter Memories of Childhood” Act/making Saskatchewan the first province in Canada / to recognize the Holodomor as genocide. // Ukrainian Canadian Congress Regina Branch 2015 Location: Regina, in the Park Wascana Center southeast of the Parliament building on Lakeshore Drive Further reading: Archdiocese of Regina: Holodomor Memorial Statue Blessed. 2015 Available online at: www.archregina.sk.ca/news/2015/05/19/holo- domor-memorial-statue-blessed (last acces- sed on: 11/01/2018). / Holodomor Research and Education Consortium. Monuments in Canada. Available online at: www.holodo- mor.ca/education/introduction/monuments/ (last accessed on: 11/01/2018). / Lerchenmüller, Franz: Marx und Mandela. Menschenrechts- museum in Winnipeg. taz.die tageszeitung article dated 11/10/2015. Available online at: www.taz.de/! 5237252/ (last accessed on: 11/01/2018).