The innovative campaign officially launched on July 21 by the Holodomor National Awareness Tour (HNAT) - a project of the Canada Ukraine Foundation - and is fully supported by the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) and its International Holodomor Committee (IHC).

It features a 75-second video made using deepfake technology and revealing the truth of Joseph Stalin’s role in ordering the forced starvation of untold millions of Ukrainians, and the subsequent cover-up of this genocide.

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Canada, the United States, Ukraine and 14 other countries recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide and honour the victims in an annual day of remembrance on the fourth Saturday in November," said Bob Onyschuk, Chair of Holodomor National Awareness Tour.  "Yet, most people are still largely unaware of the basic facts of one of the greatest crimes of the 20^th Century. Having Holodomor added to the dictionary is more than symbolic; it's an important recognition of this Deep Truth."

The campaign features a 75-second video produced by Toronto-based ad agency Mixtape (MXTP.ca) in collaboration with Paul "The Fakening" Shales (fakening.com), a world-leading pioneer of deepfake technology whose vignettes involving politicians, business leaders and entertainers regularly go viral.

With access to rare colour film footage of Stalin, Shales used Artificial Intelligence to map the Soviet dictator's features onto the face of a modern-day actor and bring Stalin back to life.  In the video, Stalin declares himself the true originator of "fake news" for having covered up the magnitude of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine and concealed from the world the engineered murder of millions of innocent men, women and children.

SOURCE Holodomor National Awareness Tour