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The Soviet famine of 1946–1947 was a major famine in the Soviet Union that lasted from mid-1946 to the winter of 1947 to 1948. It was also the last major famine in Soviet history. [1] The estimates of victim numbers vary, ranging from several hundred thousand to 2 million.
Censorship of images was widespread in the Soviet Union.Visual censorship was exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government attempted to erase some of the purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images and destroying film.
Soviet famine of 1946–1947; Soviet famine of 1946–1947 in Ukraine; U. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2; United Nations Security Council Resolution 3;
While the Moscow government recognized the famine in Russia, Soviet authorities paid little attention to the 1921–1923 famine in Ukraine. Moreover, Vladimir Lenin ordered to move trains full of grain from Ukraine to the Volga region, Moscow , and Petrograd , to combat starvation there; 1,127 trains were sent between fall 1921 and August 1922.
During World War 2, the Sun Valley resort was closed in 1942 and was used as a hospital for the U.S. Navy. The resort was reopened to the public in December, 1946, which was when this photo was taken.
Soviet famine of 1946–1947 in Ukraine; T. 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan This page was last edited on 31 March 2024, at 00:29 (UTC). Text ...
August 3 — Nikolai Burlyayev, Soviet and Russian actor and film director; August 4 — Ramazan Abdulatipov, 4th Head of the Republic of Dagestan; August 15 — Anatoly Kvashnin, 4th Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (d. 2022) August 19 — Zoja Rudnova, Soviet and Russian international table tennis player (d. 2014)
For example, 350 thousand tons of grain were exported from the USSR to Romania in 1946, 600 thousand tons of grain to Czechoslovakia in 1947, and 900 thousand tons of bread were exported to Poland throughout 1946 and 1947. [2] Famine was spreading rapidly in the Moldavian SSR and the southern regions of the Ukrainian SSR, and in the first half ...