A group of MPs of the right-wing Sovereignists party on Thursday proposed a resolution condemning the 1932-33 Holodomor in Ukraine, also known as the Terror-Famine, when several million Ukrainians were starved to death during the rule of Joseph Stalin.

“We will remind the Croatian public again of the fact that in 1932 and 1933 more than seven million Ukrainians were intentionally starved to death under the monstrous Red Terror of Joseph Stalin,” said MP Marko Milanovic-Litre, and added that the friendship and connections between Ukrainians and Croat is “centuries-long.”

He also added that the “communist terror in WWII and in the wake of the WWII in Croatia” had not been condemned to a sufficient degree.

The Holodomor atrocity was committed during the Stalin era when a man-made famine was created in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, between 1932 and 1933. During the famine, millions of Ukrainians died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine..

The Ukrainian parliament first recognized the Holodomor as a genocide in 2003, and criminalized both Holodomor denial and Holocaust denial in 2006.

MP Marijan Pavlicek said that many countries had already adopted resolutions condemning the Holodomor, including the United States, the Holy See, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Australia, Canada, and Mexico.

Pavlicek said he believed that this would pave the way for condemning “the wider context” of communist crimes which had affected “over 100 million victims in the 20th century.”