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Mass Starvation in the Soviet Union
As with Soviet campaigns of mass terror and communal torture in other countries, the holodomor was not only intended to destroy the bodies of the hated Ukrainian peasantry. Those who refused to steal or prostitute themselves to party officials died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did. Vigilantism became widespread. Armed guards would shoot greeners on site; anyone who tried to steal from a warehouse met the same fate.