As Stalin Starved Ukrainians, Kids Ate Each Other: Lewis Lapham
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When the Kharkiv orphanage, filled with starving, moaning orphans, suddenly went silent, caregivers rushed in to find the children eating Petrus, the smallest of them. Some tore off bits of the boy’s flesh and devoured them, while others sucked blood from his wounds.
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