Famine Among Fertility
The Ukraine, the fertile land, was responsible for a large majority of the food stores in the Soviet Union. With the many rural and suburban cities dotted across the nation working in tandem could produce more than enough food to satisfy the needs of all in the Ukraine. However, in January 1933, the first reports of starvation came out of Uman.
Soon after, urban areas in were reporting difficulties with food stores due to under-rationing by the Soviet rationing system. As seen in the third image on the right (the brown map) it can be seen how much of the nation was affected by food "shortages." By February 1933, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was the most affected area, and by mid-April, Kharkiv Oblast became number one on the areas most affected. A main contributor to these shortages was due to the siege of farmlands in the Ukraine, of which 80% of the populous were employed. Also, during this time, the Communist Regime had Ukrainians intellectuals placed into prison camps in Serbia, which would aid in sending the starving populous into turmoil. |
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