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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.
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.
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 ...
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In spring 1934, two boys find a cache of potatoes during the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. (Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Maoka was captured on 22 August, with heavy Japanese resistance continuing throughout the city. Japanese military casualties in this battle were 300 killed and 600 captured. Soviet casualties were 60 army soldiers killed and 17 naval infantry killed Soviet famine of 1946–1947 in Ukraine: 1946–1947 Ukraine: 300,000–1,000,000 [82]
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)
The last major famine to hit the Soviet Union began in July 1946, reached its peak in February–August 1947 and then quickly diminished in intensity, although there were still some famine deaths in 1948. [51] Economist Michael Ellman states that the hands of the state could have fed all those who died of starvation. He argues that had the ...