Posters of Stalin and Karl Marx gaze down at prisoners inside of their sleeping quarters at a gulag in the USSR in 1936. In the early 1930s, a severe famine swept across regions in the Soviet Union and six to seven million people starved to death. Until 1934, lack of food and outbreak had started destabilizing the gulag system. It wasn't until the famine ended that the system was stabilized
WNU Editor: The above picture reminds me of what my father told me once on how it was like living through the Ukraine famine of 1932-1933. Everyone in his school was hungry, but everyday they all had to sing praise to the Stalin/Marx/Lenin posters in their classrooms, and they all had to thank Stalin for giving them food. The above picture is from this photo-gallery .... Victims of the red revolution: The haunting faces of prisoners worked to death in Stalin's slave camps emerge as 100th anniversary of 1917 Bolshevik takeover approaches (Daily Mail).
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