66% of Ukrainians Consider Holodomor of 1932-33 Genocide
According to the results of a study conducted by the polling organization Rating in October 2013, the majority of Ukrainians (66%) agree with the statement that the Holodomor of 1932-33 was a genocide of the Ukrainian people, UNIAN reports. The percentage of those who disagree with this statement is 22%.
Undecided on this issue were 12% of the respondents. The highest percentage of respondents who consider the Holodomor a genocide has been recorded over the past four years. In particular, according to Rating, in 2010 this percentage was 61%; in 2011, 58%; in 2012, 59%; and this year, 66%. The number of those who do not recognize the Holodomor as genocide decreased from 25% to 22% during the years 2010-2013.
More than 80% of respondents in the west, center, and north of the country, and more than half of the respondents in the east and about 40% in the south and the Donbas consider the Holodomor was a genocide. The rate grew in all regions except in the south.
This view is supported by about 90% of the voters of Svoboda leader Oleh Tiahnybok, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the leader of the faction Batkivshchyna Arseniy Yatsenyuk, about 80% of the voters of the UDAR party leader Vitali Klitschko and MP Petro Poroshenko, more than half of the voters of President Viktor Yanukovych, and more than 40% of the voters of the Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko.
Respondants from all age categories of the population agreed with the statement, regardless of education level or gender, but the youth are the most uncertain. Villagers are more likely to agree with the statement than urban residents (79% vs. 60%).
Almost 90% of respondents whose native language is Ukrainian consider the Holodomor of 1932-33 a genocide of the Ukrainian people. However, among those who consider both Ukrainian and Russian languages native, 60% support the statement, while among those who consider only Russian to be native, only about 40%.
The survey was conducted from September 26 to October 6, 2013.
In total 2,000 respondents were surveyed. The margin of error (with probability 0.95) for the values close to 50% is less than 2.2 %; for values close to 30%, less than 2%; for values close to 10%, less than 1.3%; for values close to 5%, less than 1%.
