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Spring 1933. The horror of famine in Europe!
A famine such as the continent had not experienced in peacetime for decades.
Depopulated villages, whole families reduced to the state of emaciated corpses, saturated cemeteries, mass graves everywhere and even, too often, acts of cannibalism.
A famine… but secret, hidden, concealed behind the closed borders of the Soviet Union.
At most, the foreign press spoke of "
agricultural problems
" or "
dearth
linked to the vagaries of the weather when many Western politicians, writers or thinkers, admirers of the construction of communism, like the former President of the French Council Edouard Herriot or the British playwright and Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw, denied…
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