Unlike with the Holocaust, the question of whether the Holodomor falls under the UN definition of genocide is wide open among the historians specializing in the famine, due to the vagueness of evidence about the Soviet intent (and specific intent plays the key role in whether something is genocide or some other type of mass murder under the official definition; for example, if the aim is to suppress a political or a social group, the number of victims could be in the hundreds of millions and it might still not be a genocide ). Numerous mainstream historians have rejected the idea, including Robert Conquest, who first popularized the topic in the West.

Parliaments playing historians is a bad idea.

German parliament labels 1930s Ukraine famine as genocide