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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. [20]
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 ...
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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]
Image credits: historycoolkids #3. This is the grave of Leonard Matlovich. After serving three tours in Vietnam, Matlovich became a recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
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)