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Level -> Famine anniversary in Ukraine (11/23/2007 1:04:36 PM)
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Great Famine anniversary in Ukraine
By MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 32 minutes ago
After authorities broke into Yakiv Atamanenko's home in autumn of 1932 and confiscated the family's food, his mother and two brothers died of starvation and their bloated bodies were tossed among others in a freshly dug grave on the outskirts of this farming village.
Atamanenko and other survivors here said one of their neighbors, Oleksandra Korytnyk and her husband, ate their two children. "They cut their children into pieces and ate them," recalled Atamanenko, now a frail, gray-haired 95-year-old.
In the end, he and others said, the Korytnyks died as well.
On Saturday, Ukraine marks the 75th anniversary of the terrible famine of 1932-33, engineered by Soviet authorities to force peasants across the former U.S.S.R. to give up their privately held plots of land and join collective farms. Millions perished.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071123/ap_on_re_eu/ukraine_great_famine
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