The Painful Memory of Moldova – The Book of Famine by Larisa Turea
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37130/jpdkdg18Keywords:
starvation as a weapon of war, 1946-1947 famine, 1932-1933 Holodomor, soviet dictatorshipAbstract
The book authored by Larisa Turea talks about one of the most brutally dark pages of the history of Moldova, the 1946-1947 famine. The result of a decadeslong thoughtful research, the book brings together shattering testimonies of this tragic event, alongside insightful translations of official documents and touching photographs that shape an irrefutable truth: hundreds of thousands of people perished not because of natural conditions, not even as accidental victims of an irresponsible policy, but because of a man-made famine engineered by the Soviet government.
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