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.And corpses corpses in ragged sheepskin coats and cheap feltboots; corpses in peasant huts, in the melting snow of old Vologda, under thebridges of Kharkov.'While Russianswere dying ofhunger, theCommunistParty's barnswere crammedfull.At left, achurch used as astorehouse forgrain during theimplementationof collectivizationin the 1930s.Above, a mother and child starving to death.Below, small children who died from thefamine.As a result of Stalin's deliberate famine, four million Ukrainians died.STALIN'S LIE..AND STALIN'S TRUTHOne characteristic of Communism is its reliance on officially producedand disseminated lies.As a result of the famine Stalin fabricated in theSoviet Union, six million died of hunger, and tens of thousands of chil-dren were targets of this disaster.This photograph documents the"standard of living" deemed acceptable for Russian children in Stalin'sera.But propaganda posters depicted Stalin as a kind, concerned leaderreceiving gifts of flowers from happy children.COMMUNISM IN AMBUSH62.Word of the famine reached the West& An international relief committeewas set up under the archbishop of Vienna.It could do nothing, however, forthe Soviet government denied that any famine was taking place.36These savage scenes affected the Russian author Michail Sholokhov,who wrote a letter to Stalin demanding an end to this cruelty.But Stalinhad done all these things deliberately, of course:In April 1933 the writer Mikhail Sholokhov, who was passing through thecity of Kuban, wrote two letters to Stalin detailing the manner in which thelocal authorities had tortured all the workers on the collective farm toforce them to hand over all their remaining supplies.He demanded thatthe first secretary send some sort of food aid.In his reply on 6 May, Stalin made no attempt to feign compassion.In 1933,while these millions were dying of hunger, the Soviet government continuedto export grain, shipping 18 million hundredweight of grain abroad "in theinterests of industrialization."37Famine caused the death of six million men, women, children, oldpeople and infants not because Soviet farms produced insufficientgrain, but because the Communist party wanted this man-made famineto happen.In other words, it was mass murder.Stalin didn't wantWestern countries to learn of the famine because he feared that any aidcampaign would only weaken the punishment he had determined forUkraine.In the periodical magazine Soviet Studies, historian DanaDalrymple comments:The Soviet Union, in fact, has never officially admitted that the famine ex-isted.American and English studies on the USSR occasionally mention afamine in Ukraine but generally provide few or no details.Yet, previousfamines in the USSR have been acknowledged by the government and havebeen well recorded elsewhere.Why the difference? The answer seems to bethat the famine of 1932-34, unlike its predecessors was a man-made disas-ter.38As a result of collectivization, peasants of Ukraine suffered the great-est losses, with at least four million people dead.In Kazakhstan, one mil-lion starved as a result of collectivization.In Northern Caucasus and theBlack Earth region, there were a million deaths.With one single order,Stalin had sent six million people to their deaths.39The History of Bolshevik Savagery63Exiles and Work CampsStalin murdered millions of others who resisted Communism by send-ing them into "exile." The Soviet Union singled out many minorities, in-cluding Crimean Turks, forcing them from their homes at night andsending them to their deaths, thousands of kilometers away.Those whodied on the way numbered in the hundreds of thousands.In the notes below, written by an instructor of the Party committee inNarym in western Siberia, we see that exile in Russia meant "mass murder":On 29 and 30 April 1933 two convoys of "outdated elements" were sent to us bytrain from Moscow and Leningrad.On their arrival in Tomsk they were trans-ferred to barges and unloaded, on 18 May and 26 May, onto the island of Nazino,which is situated at the juncture of the Ob and Nazina rivers.The first convoycontained 5,070 people, and the second 1,044: 6,114 in all.The transport condi-tions were appalling: the little food that was available was inedible, and thedeportees were cramped into nearly airtight spaces& The result was a dailymortality rate of 35-40 people.These living conditions however, proved to beluxurious in comparison to what awaited the deportees on the island of Nazino(from which they were supposed to be sent on in groups to their final destina-tion, the new sectors that are being colonized farther up the Nazina River).Theisland of Nazino is a totally uninhabited place, devoid of any settlements&There were no tools, no grain, and no food.That is how their new life began.Theday after the arrival of the first convoy, on 19 May, snow began to fall again, andthe wind picked up.Starving, emaciated from months of insufficient food,without shelter, and without tools, & they were trapped.They weren't evenable to light fires to ward off the cold.More and more of them began to die& Onthe first day, 295 people were buried [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]