BYSTRIANYK: Twenty-two million faced starvation so severe that cannibalism became an option for survival.

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From 1919 to 1923, people in Soviet Russia suffered a dreadful famine. Twenty-two million faced starvation so severe that cannibalism became an option for survival.
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— Roman Bystrianyk (@RBystrianyk) August 14, 2024

Think you are having a bad day?

From 1919 to 1923, people in Soviet Russia suffered a dreadful famine. Twenty-two million faced starvation so severe that cannibalism became an option for survival.

“...conditions in Russia are getting worse every day. Starvation is increasing... We are quite helpless in the growing distress... Cannibalism is spreading to a terrific degree...Twenty-two million people are now directly endangered by starvation... Seven or eight million people might perhaps be saved by us next autumn. But the rest (i.e., 14 or 15,000,000) inevitably face starvation... The truth is: Starvation is going to be worse next year, and even the year after the next will be a terrible one.”

[The Famine in Soviet Russia, 1919–1923: The Operations of the American Relief Administration, Harold Henry Fisher, 1927, p. 300.]