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Village Osekeevo, Buguruslan County, Kazan District. A 7 years girl. A skeleton with sullen stomach caused by emaciation and eating of grass and surrogates. |
Death agony: this boy will die soon. |
One of the famine-sufferer in Ukraine. |
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In a children house. |
People ate everything around, including home animals. This man holds a dog’s head to eat – it was a luxury at that time!! |
Old people suffered the most severely, they couldn’t resist to the famine. |
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A horror from the famine one can see in the eyes of this a skeleton-boy. |
Kids died like flies. Many unburied were scattered around, the bodies of the dead were decomposing, and that was horrible picture… |
A typical picture of the famine: emaciated children. |
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A famous poster by the soviet painter D. Moor, 1921. It says: “Help!” |
A drawing from The Evening Standard of New York. |
Typical provincial town in Russia at the time of the famine. |
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The Famine map from Harold Fisher’s book (1927). |
A celebrated Russian writer Maxim Gorkiy addressed the world (“to all honest people’) to help famine-stricken Russian. Herbert Hoover, a Director of the American Relief Administration, proposed America’s humanitarian aid. |
Victims of the soviet famine. |
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They were officially referred to as people fleeing the famine. It was a horrendous exodus by thousands and thousands who fled their homes due to the “bony hand of famine”. They rushed to the South, Siberia, and the West. |
«People fleeing the famine»: skimpy meals under the open sky. |
Dead children. No coffins. Nobody buried. The dead were piled in the hurriedly dug pit-holes like this one. |
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The routine life of the famine sufferers. Saratov. The Volga river embankment. People wait for a steamship to escape the famine. |
No, her mom does not sleep, she just died from hunger and emaciation. |
The archival document. Read it carefully. Horror! |
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It is estimated that at least 5 million people died from hunger and illnesses during the Great Famine of 1921-1923. |
One of the Soviet propaganda poster about the famine and its causes. That was the Soviet Government interpretation of the calamity. |
Non-Russian people fleeing the famine area. |
