In the re-issue of Stalin’s famine, Russia has damaged Ukraine’s food infrastructure, the ‘bread basket of Europe’. Blockade of ports that prevent the departure of grain and sunflower oil affects countries in Africa and the Middle East
“Once hunger has conquered him, man will no longer rise, not only because he no longer has strength: he has no interest, he no longer wants to live” (Vasily Grossman, ‘Everything Flows’).
In the spring of 1932, Ukrainian farmers began to starve.
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