This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. People were forced to eat grass, dirt, dogs, cats and leather horse harnesses. The Big Show in Bololand. These disturbing pictures show the horrors of the Russian famine in the 1920s which hit around 25million people in the Volga and Ural River region of the vast country. 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[35] In a secret March 19, 1922 letter to the Politburo, Lenin expressed an intention to seize several hundred million golden roubles for famine relief. Canni… "[15] On one trip, with few car necessities or regular gas, he drove 150 miles on tires without inner tubes, instead stuffed with straw. This led peasants to drastically reduce their crop production. In sparse, unadorned prose, Vasilevsky compiled a chilling catalogue of murder, violence, insanity, and ineffable suffering. [15] In 1920 and 1921 it provided one meal a day to 3.2 million children in Finland, Estonia, various Russian regions, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Armenia. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. [19][12][20] Although it had agreed to provide food for a million people, mostly children, within a year it was feeding more than ten times that number daily. In his book, The Gulag Archipelago , Soviet writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described cases of cannibalism in 20th-century USSR . An estimated 16 million people may have been affected and up to 5 million died. [13] After an agreement was finally signed at Riga, the U.S. set up its first kitchen in Petrograd, where 1.6 million people had already starved to death. The true extent of cannibalism during the Great Famine is unknown. [13] In order to transport and distribute the food after it was collected in the U.S., the ARA used 237 ships, under the direction of 200 Americans, and with the help of 125,000 Russians on location, unloading, warehousing, hauling, weighing, cooking and serving the food in more than 21,000 newly established kitchens. Out of these, one million gold roubles were spent for famine relief. It was about famine in the Ukraine, 1932-1933. 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