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The famine area in the fall of 1921. The Russian famine of 1921–1922, also known as the Povolzhye famine (Russian: Голод в Поволжье, 'Volga region famine') was a severe famine in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that began early in the spring of 1921 and lasted until 1922.
Map of Tomsk Oblast with Nazino labelled. The Nazino tragedy (Russian: Назинская трагедия, romanized: Nazinskaya tragediya) was the mass murder and mass deportation of around 6,700 prisoners to Nazino Island, [1] located on the Ob River in West Siberian Krai, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Tomsk Oblast, Russia), in May 1933.
Evidence of widespread cannibalism was documented during the famine within Ukraine [124] [125] and Kazakhstan. Some of the starving in Kazakhstan devolved into cannibalism ranging from eating leftover corpses to the famished actively murdering each other in order to feed. [126] [127] More than 2,500 people were convicted of cannibalism during ...
The early 1920s saw a series of famines. The deadly Russian famine of 1921–1922 happened as a result of the ongoing civil war and garnered wide international attention, the most affected area being the Southeastern areas of European Russia (including Volga region, especially national republics of Idel-Ural, see 1921–22 famine in Tatarstan ...
The first half of the 20th century saw a resurgence of acts of survival cannibalism in Eastern Europe, especially during the Russian famine of 1921–1922, the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, and the siege of Leningrad. Several serial killers, among them Karl Denke and Andrei Chikatilo, consumed parts of their victims.
Self-confessed serial killer Tamara Samsonova, 68, may have experimented with cannibalism as she brutally murdered each of her 11 victims. Over two decades, the senior woman beheaded and ...
Kazakh famine of 1919–1922. A series of famines in Turkestan at the time of the Bolshevik revolution killed about a sixth of the population: Turkestan [119] 1920–1921: Famine in northern China: China: 500,000: 1920–1922: Famine in Cape Verde: Cape Verde: 24,000 – 25,000 [90] 1921: Russian famine of 1921–1922: Russia: 5,000,000 [120 ...
The event was part of the greater Russian famine of 1921–22 that affected other parts of what became the Soviet Union, [6] in which up 5,000,000 people died in total. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] According to Roman Serbyn , a professor of Russian and East European history, the Tatarstan famine was the first man-made famine in the Soviet Union and ...