Today, Moldova commerates the victims of 1946-1947 famine. 100.000 people or 5% of population perished. In some villages, up to 50% might have died. The natural causes were severely aggravated by the Soviet authorities who forcibly collected provisions from peasants amid a drastic drought.

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by ArthRol

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  2. Yeah communist China did the same thing in the 50’s and 60’s. They must have learned it from Russia

    The Soviet Union was the bane of humanity and they didn’t even learn anything until 1991 either. Even in the 1980’s they were starving in Russia

  3. I wonder if this was due to negligence, ignorance and distaste for the local population, or was it a premeditated crime? Or both?

  4. As my first comment seems to be deleted, the source of first image – Art of Alex Buretz (fb). The source of images 2,3 – WhatchDog.md.

    The sources for statistics are indicated in a cross post on r/Romania. I don’t know why my comment was deleted by reddit. Maybe due to gross and harsh descriptive text I provided?

    Edit: Now, I have time to copy sources here. [First (English)](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/famines-wwii) and [Second ](https://newsmaker.md/rus/novosti/v-vagonakh-gnilo-zerno-na-ulitsakh-gnili-lyudi-kak-golod-na-yuge-moldovy-unichtozhil-do-poloviny-naseleniya/)

  5. What happened in 1948? Why did it happen in 1946-47 but stopped in 48?

  7. Seems to be the Soviet Unions modus operandi, creating/worsening starvation,

  8. The more I think of it, the more I realise that Russia has a lot of blood on its hands.

    Thank you for sharing this! I had no idea Russia committed such a horrific crime in Moldova.

  9. My grandparents told me stories how the Soviet soldiers swept the grain storage pod in their house. Not a single grain left for the feeeltheee Romanians. And now you’ve got Ruskies and tankies wondering why everybody else in Eastern Europe hates their guts, and how can we possibly be so ungrateful to the brave & glorious Russian soldiers who saved us from the Nazi menace…

  11. Hammer and sickle should be censored just like the swastika.

  12. Robbing the peasents of their food. Equality, everyone.

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