Genocide of the Ukrainian people: MIA publishes unique criminal cases on cannibalism in 1932-1933

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the project "Real History" project publishes unique documents - criminal cases about of cannibalism during the Holodomor, UNN reports. 

The state archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has 1022 cases of cannibalism in 1932-1933. It is worth noting, this is only the number of criminal cases opened by the Soviet police. There were also group cases. 

"I would very much would like the materials that are now open to give impetus to serious historical legal and other scientific research. This is a very serious layer for for research by physiologists and psychiatrists. This is driving a person to cannibalism. I would would like our society to accept these facts through this prism. People who resorted to cannibalism are the victims of the Holodomor," emphasized State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Inna Yashchuk.

Among the the published documents is the case of Anna Storcheus. Her husband and three children died of starvation. husband and three children died of starvation. The last fourth child, a girl named Nadiya was killed and eaten by the woman. 

The peculiarity of of all these cases is their politicization and falsification. That is, outwardly they were in line with the law. Formally, an investigation was conducted, the fact of the crime was established the fact of the crime, and the perpetrators were identified. However, the victims, people driven to cannibalism by the regime to cannibalism, were convicted of murder. 

The mechanisms of of artificial starvation and the fact that people were driven to despair and insanity are not documented in the and the fact of driving people to despair and insanity are not documented in the case files. Psychiatric examinations are almost never conducted, instead, doctors write in their conclusions "look stupid, eyes shine". This, for example, was the case in the case of May 1933 regarding the prosecution of a woman named Marcelina Antonovna. 

In addition, among the archival cases, there are many related to corpse eating.

"This was the case of M. K. Yarova, that after the death of a young child from starvation, instead of burial, the fact of the fact of corpse eating was discovered instead of burial," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

The phenomenon of of cannibalism became widespread at the peak of the Holodomor, but in the cases of is not mentioned in the cases. Instead, the case files reveal an obvious regime's focus - people accused of cannibalism did not want to join collective farms or did not have enough collective farms or did not have enough labor days. Other victims of the regime were Ukrainians who had "inappropriate" class and social backgrounds. 

In the documents we can see that "he has 30 working days, declassified, decayed, inefficient element", "Ukrainian, non-partisan, illiterate, bastard." 

In general, out of of more than a thousand cases, there are isolated cases where a person was referred for psychiatric treatment. The vast majority were sent to NKVD camps for the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. 

"It is important that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was able to preserve these historical documents. Every family has its own history of the of the Holodomor. When 5 or even 10 children died. The families were quite large at that time. large at that time, but there was nothing to eat. When the last ear of grain was taken away. This is what we have to talk about this. And not only to our children in Ukraine, not only to to remember, but to tell the whole world. So that this does not happen again," emphasizes the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko.

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