Famine in Kazakstan & Ukraine - (1928-1934)

Added: Aug 17, 2008

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(1928-1934) - Uly Dzhut In Kazakstan extracting resources took the form of forced grain requisitions, which, paradoxically, hit hardest those who produced no grain - herdsmen and set in motion a process that led to the near total destruction of the region's livestock. In the Pavlodar district, in Aul No. 1, 40 deaths have been ascribed to hunger, the majority of them children, while in order to survive the people left are eating cats, dogs and carrion. Similar instances have also been noted in other auly in the same district. In the report by the Moscow section of the Red Cross, currently working in the area around Aktobe, it is written that the Kazaks in those areas have been stuck by hunger and epidemic. The hungry go looking through refuse, they are eating the roots of wild plants and small rodents. "The last of the cats and dogs have been eaten, the refuse heaps around the huts are full of the bones of dogs, cats and small rodents burnt by cooking..." Cases of anthropophagy are cited. In this report (as in many others) it is written that in the capital of the Turgay district (2,500 inhabitants), 728 people have contracted smallpox, with an extremely high mortality rate. Based on the figures from the local bodies in the Turgay and Batpakarinsk districts, between 20% and 39% of the population have died and the majority of the people left alive have fled. In many of the soviets in the Chelkarsk district, 30-35% of the population in the aul`s have died. In recent times, there is doom everywhere, death of the population, the sowings did not grow, all cattle is handed out to the state, the kolkhozniki are not supplied with grain from the side of the state, the population has nothing to eat the local activists once they have seen a citizen with a piece of bread, a pound of flour, a piece of meat, they take it from him and consume it themselves, [labeling it] as a handing out to the state, but in fact they gulp it themselves Besides that, the local authorities carry out, among the hungry population, various procurement campaigns, while the populace is unable to find food, not a single piece of bread. Collectivization and sedentarization decimated the animal herding economy. Its most disastrous results were in Kazakstan, culminating in the great famine of 1931-1933. The campaign of "debajization" was meant to mark the end of traditional hierarchies in nomad society and the destruction of the tribal solidarity that prevented the state from controlling socio-economic relationships in rural areas so that it could reshape them for its own ends. The krajkom's directive dated December 25, 1931 was the first to raise the question of how to manage the masses of impoverished ex-nomads. There was not the slightest hope that the method they came up with, concentrating the Kazaks in large settlements in the region's agricultural areas, would be put into practice because there were no resources available for carrying it out. Starting in October 1931, we have hundreds of accounts of masses of indigent Kazaks fleeing in every direction and descriptions of scenes of death and desolation everywhere in the steppes. In the winter of 1931-1932 there had already been thousands of deaths in the zones where the refugees were concentrated, generally cities and industrial zones. For example, during the winter, on the site of the copper mining complex on Lake Balkhash, at least 4,000 corpses of Kazaks were buried in the snow. It is not surprising that the desperate situation led to the stealing of livestock, especially of animals that belonged to the kolkhozes. The Kazaks were the first to be fired by the sovkhozes and expelled from the kolkhozes, whose directors, in a situation of general hardship, chose to dismiss the least skilled and useful workers. Often directors got rid of whole groups of workers. In March 1933, krajkom officials ordered the sovkhozes to stop "mass firings" of Kazaks and ruled that any case in which a group of more than 40 people was fired by an animal rearing sovkhoz was to be subject to approval by the party committee of the local oblastґ. The collapse of agricultural production and animal rearing, the inability to contain the social crisis triggered by collectivization, and the increasingly insistent protests arriving from the apparats in Kazakstan, especially from Kazak officials,convinced Moscow that Goloshekin should be removed. This occurred at the height of the famine, in January 1933. http://www.kinokultura.com/CA/reviews/surzhekey.html http://turan.info/forum/showthread.php?t=83

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