U.S. President Barack Obama has said that the remembrance of Holodomor will help prevent such tragedy in the future.

On the Ukrainian Holodomor Remembrance Day, Ukrainian-Americans and all Americans will join together to commemorate these tragic events and to honor the many victims, Obama said in a statement published on the Web site of the White House.

"Seventy six years ago, millions of innocent Ukrainians – men, women, and children – starved to death as a result of the deliberate policies of the regime of Joseph Stalin," the statement reads.

The Ukrainian people suffered horribly during in 1932-1933 due to the Stalin regime's seizure of crops and farms across Ukraine, the U.S. president said.

In his words, remembering the victims of the man-made catastrophe of Holodomor provides us an opportunity to reflect upon the plight of all those who have suffered the consequences of extremism and tyranny around the world.