Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: a family who lost their home as a result of a campaign of repressions against the better-off peasants (so-called kulaks). Udachne village in Donetsk Oblast.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: children collect frozen potatoes at a collective farm (kolkhoz). Udachne village, Donetsk Oblast.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933. Photograph by Austrian photographer Alexander Wienerberger.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: rationing of food.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: a family who lost their belongings as a result of a campaign of repressions against the better-off peasants (so-called kulaks). Udachne village in Donetsk Oblast.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: starving man on a street in Kharkiv, 1933.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: a victim of the famine.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: children in queueing for their daily food ration.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: swelling caused by hunger.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: lorries with confiscated grain. The slogan on the lorry reads: Instead of the kulad bread - eat socialist bread." Kakhovka sovkhoz.

Photo: Laski Diffusion / East News The Holodomor ('Extermination by hunger') in Soviet Ukraine in the 1932-1933. Pictured: an information sign: "Burial strictly prohibited on this site".

Ukraine, Kiev, woman walking in front of frescos during a memorial ceremony at the Holodomor Memorial

PHOTO:EAST NEWS/AFP Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko (C) and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski (R) visit a monument dedicated to Holodomor victims in the village of Kominternovo, near Odessa 07 December 2007. The monument is dedicated to the millions who died in the Soviet-era famine of 1932-1933 which remains a bone of contention between Kiev and Moscow.