충격! 러시아 혁명이 가져온 소작농의 비참한 최후 Distressing photos show how the 1920s Russian famine turned hopeless peasants into cannibals as five million people starved to death
Distressing photos show how the 1920s Russian famine turned hopeless peasants into cannibals as five million people starved to death
A Russian couple sell human body parts on a market. People of Russia began to eat and sell human limbs due to the
- The Russian famine of 1921–22, also known as Povolzhye famine, occurred in Bolshevik Russia
- It began in early spring of 1921 and lasted through 1922
- Civil war and Lenin's policy of seizing food from peasants caused the devastating man-made famine
- Around 30 million people were affected and around five million died
- WARNING: Distressing images
Standing solemnly in their thick winter coats behind a table laden with children's body parts, this is the grave photo of a couple that shows how starving people turned to cannibalism to survive during a man-made famine in 1920s Russia.
More than five million people died during the catastrophe, which began in 1921 and lasted through 1922.
Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, had been in charge of the country since 1917. In a chilling disregard for the suffering of his fellow countrymen he instructed food to be seized from the poor.
Lenin's Bolsheviks party believed peasants were actively trying to undermine the war effort and by taking their food away it reduced their strength.
The famine was able to take root with ease due to the economic problems caused by World War I, five years of civil war, and a drought in 1921 which led to 30 million Russians becoming malnourished.
As Lenin declared ‘let the peasants starve’, the result was to force them to resort to trading human flesh on the black market.
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