In 1932 and 1933, millions died in the Ukraine. The country was hit by the Holodomor, a famine so terrible that, for the people caught in the middle of it, seeing an emaciated body collapsed on the side of the road had become an everyday sight.

The country became a living nightmare; a place where thousands of starving people had turned to cannibalism to survive. And yet, in the news outside of the Ukraine, newspapers denied it was even happening.

The Ukrainians call the famine the “Holodomor,” a name that means “murder through starvation.” The Holodomor, they believe, wasn’t just a natural disaster, it was deliberately planned to starve them out.

[Read the full article at All That Is Interesting.]