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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.
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило; Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило, romanized: Andrii Romanovych Chykatylo; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at ...
Almost all of them were sent to POW camps in Siberia or Central Asia where, due to being chronically underfed by their Soviet captors, many resorted to cannibalism. [202] A number of oral accounts suggest that cannibalism due to a lack of food was practised during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (1941–1945) in World War II.
Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami . That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...
Prior to his murder convictions, Nikolayev had a long criminal history, first being convicted for theft and robbery in 1980. [1] On his own account, the first murder happened "accidentally" when Nikolayev killed a drinking companion, (who also had a criminal history) during a fist fight.
In the Soviet Union, several severe famines between the 1920s and the 1940s led to cannibalism. Children were particularly at risk. Children were particularly at risk. During the Russian famine of 1921–1922 , "it was dangerous for children to go out after dark since there were known to be bands of cannibals and traders who killed them to eat ...
Nikolai Dzhumagaliev was born on 15 November 1952, in Uzynagash, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, to a Kazakh father and Belarusian mother, the third of four children and only son of his family. [2] After completing the ninth grade of school, Dzhumagaliev entered a railway school; following his graduation, he was assigned to work in Atyrau.
The Holodomor was part of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, which also devastated other parts of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Multiple cases of cannibalism were also reported from Kazakhstan. [86] A few years later, starving people again resorted to cannibalism during the siege of Leningrad (1941–1944). About this time, Solzhenitsyn ...