From the BBC: “Ukraine remembers famine horror”
From Vasily Grossman’s description in Forever Flowing:
Some went insane. They never did become completely still. One could tell from their eyes–because their eyes shone. These were the people who cut up and cooked corpses, who killed their own children and ate them. In them the beast rose to the top as the human being died. I saw one. She had been brought to the district center under convoy. Her face was human, but her eyes were those of a wolf. These are cannibals, they said, and must all be shot. But they themselves, who drove the mother to the madness of eating her own children, are evidently not guilty at all! For that matter, can you really find anyone who is guilty? Just go and ask, and they will all tell you that they did it for the sake of virtue, for everybodyâ??s good. Thatâ??s why they drove mothers to cannibalism!
Remember that the next time you see some idiot with a t-shirt emblazoned with CCCP or the face of the loathesome Che Guevara.
Hi Tom,
The link to the website that sells the CCCP has a blog attached to it. I started to read these comments and they’re quite sick. The ignorance displayed was not a shock, but the amount of hatred displayed was. It was very eye opening.
That’s interesting, I took most of the comments to be sarcastic. Must be the cynic in me.