As starvation and cannibalism stalked Ukraine in 1932-33, the Soviet dictator covered it up. Today, some in the Kremlin still call it a hoax.
Houses filled with the dead were commonplace in Ukraine in 1932 and ’33. Those who collected the corpses knew where to stop if they saw ravens nearby. And sometimes the emaciated living were carted away with the deceased.
The historian Robert Conquest told Congress in 1986, “The Soviet assault on the peasantry, and on the Ukrainian nation, [in] 1930-33 was one of the largest and most devastating events in modern history.”Thirteen percent of the Ukrainian population perished, Applebaum wrote, as Stalin enforced “collectivization” — the seizure of private property, livestock and equipment
Stalin’s solution was to close the Ukrainian border and make it difficult for people to escape or go from village to village inside Ukraine. He sent in special requisition brigades to scour the homes of the starving for hidden goods. “Many survivors witnessed either cannibalism or, far more often, necrophagy, the consumption of corpses of people who had died of starvation,” she wrote.
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