- 30 Jun 2004 05:06
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Further to recent reopening of discussion on the 32-33 Famine in the USSR, I just started reading Nina Lugovskaya's Diary from 1932-37 [ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 1088568358 ] yesterday, and came across the following passages:
It's interesting reading. The girl was unsurprisingly anti-Bolshevik, considering her parents were SRs, and her father was hounded by the authorities.
"21 August 1933
A kilo of white bread costs 60 kopecks! A liter of kerosene costs 50! Moscow is grumbling. Angry, hungry, tired people standing in lines berate the government and curse life. Not a word do you hear anywhere in defense of the hated Bolsheviks. Market prices are shooting up because of the rise in the price of bread and other essentials. What's going to happen now that bread costs twice as much it did, and potatoes at the market cost five rubles a bucket, while in state stores there are none at all? What will the workers eat this winter? Even now there aren't any vegetables or anything else in the stores...
31 August 1933
Strange things are going on in Russia. Hunger, cannibalism... People from the provinces say there isn't time to remove the corpses from the streets, that provincial towns are full of starving, ragged peasants. Everywhere there's terrible thieving and banditry..."
It's interesting reading. The girl was unsurprisingly anti-Bolshevik, considering her parents were SRs, and her father was hounded by the authorities.