The paintings by [Ukrainian] artist Nina Marchenko are created by her soul. A lot of them are dedicated to the tragic pages of our history: Holodomor of 1932-1933 and World War II

“The paintings by [Ukrainian] artist Nina Marchenko are created by her soul. A lot of them are dedicated to the tragic pages of our history: Holodomor of 1932-1933 and World War II…Talking about Holodomor Nina closes her eyes, her voice is sad. Answering my question why she touched this horrible subject, what she was feeling, the artist started telling how much pain it was accumulated in her soul, how much she wanted (and it was so hard!) to splash it out onto the canvas.”

“The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р, “Extermination by hunger” or “Hunger-extermination”; derived from морити голодом, “to kill by starvation”), also known as the Terror-Famine and Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and—before the widespread use of the term “Holodomor,” as well as currently still—referred to also as the Great Famine, and The Ukrainian Genocide of 1932–33 was a man-made famine in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed an estimated 2.5–7.5 million Ukrainians, with millions more counted in demographic estimates. It was part of the wider disaster, the Soviet famine of 1932–33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country. During the Holodomor millions of inhabitants of Ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine. Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by the independent Ukraine and 24 other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet Union.”