The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор, romanized: death by hunger) was a famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and adjacent Cossack territories between 1932 and 1933, in which millions of Ukrainians died from starvation. Opinions and beliefs about the Holodomor vary widely among nations. It is considered a genocide by Ukraine, and Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lobbied for the famine to be considered a genocide internationally. By 2019 the Holodomor was recognized as a genocide by fifteen out of 195 other states, as a crime against humanity by the European Parliament, and as part of the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 by Russia.