Raphael Lemkin, the distinguished lawyer who coined the term “genocide” and is considered the father of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the United Nations on December 9, 1948 (the U.N. Convention on Genocide), regarded the Holodomor as a part of the Soviet genocide against the Ukrainian people. (Rafael Lemkin, “Soviet Genocide in Ukraine,” New York, 1953, https://web.archive.org/web/20120302234607/, http://www.uccla.ca/SOVIET_GENOCIDE_IN_THE_UKRAINE.pdf). Yet recognition of the Holodomor as genocide on the international level still is not universal.