Page 49 - Communism in Ambush

In 1921 and 1922, as a result of the famine
deliberately caused by Lenin, 29 million peo-
ple within the borders of the Soviet Union
were caught in the grips of starvation. Five
million of them starved to death.

Lenin became enraged when he saw that quotas set for the villagers
were not being met. Finally in 1920, he imposed a terrible punishment
on the villagers in some areas who were resisting the confiscations:
These villagers would have not only their produce taken, but their seeds
as well. This meant they couldn't plant new crops and would certainly
die of hunger. From 1921 to 1922, famine caught 29 million Russian indi-
viduals in its grip; and five million of them died.
When news of the famine reached Western countries, they organ-
ized an aid campaign to help ease the disaster. It almost succeeded, but
it came too late. The Bolsheviks, wanting to conceal the utter disaster of
their agricultural policy, forbade the publication of any news about the
famine, consistently denying that it was happening. In his book, A
Concise History of the Russian Revolution, Richard Pipes writes:
In the spring of 1921, p peasants in the areas struck by the famine resorted to
eating grass, tree bark, and rodents... There were confirmed cases of canni-