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WERE DYING
OF HUNGER...
Children became just skin and bone and died of starvation, but the Bolsheviks contin-
ued to confiscate the peasants' grain. Sacks that peasants hid underground were found
and dragged out of their holes by Communist militants. Villagers who had hidden the
sacks were tortured to death.
In the Kurgan
region in 1918,
bags of wheat
were forcibly
collected from
the people to
feed the Red
Army.
