Vladimir Putin has been intervening in the affairs of his neighbors for some time now, but Ukraine seems like a particularly egregious step due to how ugly the history there is:

Republican Rep. Scott Plakon, who is of Ukrainian descent, has filed a resolution calling for a day of remembrance in Florida for the Holodomor, the famine genocide inflicted by Soviet leaders in the 1930s, killing millions of Ukrainians.

Plakon introduced his Holodomor Remembrance Day resolution (HR 8055) on Tuesday, the day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would send troops into two Ukrainian provinces already largely controlled by Russian separatists, and two days before Putin launched Russia’s full assault against Ukraine.

Plakon’s resolution calls for Florida to recognize Nov. 26, 2022, as Holodomor Remembrance Day.

Holodomor (Ukrainian for murder by starvation) occurred in 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine, orchestrated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. In part, Stalin sought to punish Ukrainians for bucking his government and its policies. He also wanted to forcibly break up Ukraine’s family farm culture to make way for Marxist collective farming. And he wanted to use Ukraine’s rich agricultural output to prop up Russia during what was then a severe Eastern European drought.

The Soviets forced Ukraine to export virtually all its agricultural output to Russia, and confiscated livestock, food, crops, even seeds. That led to mass famine in Ukraine.

Heroes.