Posted on 03/23/2007 1:49:54 PM PDT by murdoog
I recently finished Robert Conquest's Harvest Of Sorrow. It was not a fun book to read, but it was very informative and hard to put down.
The descriptions of the Ukrainian Famine were horrifying and heartrending.One that sticks with me as I write this is of a mother burying her child who had just died of starvation. Russian soldiers accused her of digging a grain pit, so they dug the child up to satisfy their suspicions, and left her to bury him again.
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