Anna Slobodian, née Kashchak, was a four-year-old kid from a peasant family in 1932-1933, when her village was hit by the Holodomor, the genocidal famine of Ukrainians by the Soviet authorities, which killed millions. She recollects how the Communist authorities confiscated all food, how people starved to death in her village, and how her family survived on dried fruit, mushrooms, and food surrogates. Her husband lost three siblings to the famine. This story is one of many eyewitness accounts gathered in the expeditions of the Holodomor Museum.
Holodomor
Soviet history
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Villagers hand over their agricultural equipment over to the Kolkhoz, Krusheltsi village of Vinnytsia region, 1931.
