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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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a available was inedible, and the deportees were cramped into nearly air-
tight spaces… The result was a daily mortality rate of 35-40 people. These
living conditions however, proved to be luxurious in comparison to what
awaited the deportees on the island of Nazino (from which they were sup-
posed to be sent on in groups to their final destination, the new sectors that
are being colonized farther up the Nazina River). The island of Nazino is a
totally uninhabited place, devoid of any settlements… There were no
tools, no grain, and no food. That is how their new life began. The day after
the arrival of the first convoy, on 19 May, snow began to fall again, and the
wind picked up. Starving, emaciated from months of insufficient food,
without shelter, and without tools, … they were trapped. They weren't
even able to light fires to ward off the cold. More and more of them began
to die…On the first day, 295 people were buried. It was only on the fourth
or fifth day after the convoy's arrival on the island that the authorities sent
a bit of flour by boat, really no more than a few pounds per person. Once
they had received their meager ration, people ran to the edge of the water
and tried to mix some of the flour with water in their hats, their trousers, or
their jackets Most of them just tried to eat it straight off, and some of them
even choked to death. These tiny amounts of flour were the only food that
the deportees received during the entire period of their stay on the island.
The more resourceful among them tried to make some rudimentary sort of
pancakes, but they had nothing to mix or cook them in… It was not long
before the first cases of cannibalism occurred. 49
Stanford researcher Robert Conquest's book, The Harvest of
Sorrow, has this to say about the exiles of Stalin's time:
Up to 15 and even 20%, especially young children, are reported dying in
transit, as was to be the case again in the 1940s, with the mass deportations
of minority nationalities. Of course, the deportees were in every sort of
physical condition, some of the women pregnant. A Cossack mother gave
birth on a deportation train. The baby, as was usual, died. Two soldiers
threw the body out while the train was on the move. Sometimes the depor-
tees were taken more or less directly to their final destination. Sometimes,
they remained in local towns… 49
In Archangel all the churches were closed and used as transit prisons, in
which many-tiered sleeping platforms were put up. The peasants could