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Cannibal Island: In 1933, Nearly 5,000 Died In One Of Stalin's Most Horrific Labor Camps
Radio Free Europe ^ | July 05, 2018 | By Andrei Filimonov Robert Coalson

Posted on 05/22/2021 1:03:27 PM PDT by Fzob

TOMSK, Russia – Every year, a small group of locals travels the 550 kilometers northwest from this Siberian city to Nazinsky Island, in the middle of the Ob River, to place a wreath at the foot of a wooden cross. It is a gesture of remembrance for the victims of the horrific events that unfolded there in the summer of 1933.

"Every year in June, we place a wreath at the cross that was placed on the island in 1993," Valeria Shtatolkin told RFE/RL. "But this year, we couldn't go. The water was too high, and the island is almost entirely flooded."

Their dedication to the pilgrimage is part of an effort to remind fellow Russians of an experiment in social engineering and self-sufficiency that went tragically wrong for many of the "settlers" lured by Soviet authorities under Josef Stalin -- whose brutal excesses have frequently been downplayed under Russia's current leadership in favor of a more forgiving historical interpretation of Stalin's three-decade rule.

Eighty-five years ago in May, a small flotilla of lumber barges pulled up to Nazinsky Island and off-loaded about 3,000 "settlers" with orders to construct a "special settlement," as their little corner of Stalin's GULAG – the network of labor camps that spread across the Soviet Union where millions of people were repressed and killed -- was euphemistically called. At least 23 of the prisoners were already dead.

Without tools or shelter or food and surrounded by armed guards who shot anyone who tried to brave the icy river, the prisoners quickly fell victim to starvation, disease, violence, and the brutal elements. And still, additional barges continued to pull up at the island.

Numerous gruesome incidents of cannibalism were reported. So many, in fact, that locals came to call it Cannibal Island or the Island of Death.

By August, at least 4,000 people were dead or missing.


TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: cannibal; russia; stalin
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To: BenLurkin

Sobering, isn’t it?


21 posted on 05/22/2021 2:16:09 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Understood.

Preparation is everything


22 posted on 05/22/2021 2:18:25 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Woof back, my brother.


23 posted on 05/22/2021 2:19:17 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SkyDancer

Stay sharp.
Aim small, miss small... and don’t miss...


24 posted on 05/22/2021 2:20:13 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Re disarm:
Good luck with that.


25 posted on 05/22/2021 2:21:08 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

They disarmed the population, then shut down the communication systems.


26 posted on 05/22/2021 2:23:42 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Fzob

The possible equivalents here in the U.S.S.A. are places like NYC, Chicago, L.A., and Philadelphia...

Just give them a little more time...


27 posted on 05/22/2021 2:24:40 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Fzob

This is what our commie leaders want for us unvaccinated for COVID-19. Then they will try the chip. That is why we are preparing now.


28 posted on 05/22/2021 2:27:16 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: BenLurkin

What’s that an image of?


29 posted on 05/22/2021 2:27:37 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: NFHale; DuncanWaring

I’ll second that Woof!


30 posted on 05/22/2021 2:27:51 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Fzob

The fairy tail 1609 project isn’t nearly as bad as the socialist reality but they won’t teach that.


31 posted on 05/22/2021 2:28:19 PM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: Fzob

"Joseph Stalin: Why so many Russians like the Soviet dictator"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47975704

32 posted on 05/22/2021 2:31:28 PM PDT by tlozo
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To: Fzob

Perfect example of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

AOC call your office. This could be your next legislative project after the Green New Deal.


33 posted on 05/22/2021 2:32:54 PM PDT by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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To: Fzob

We go to the ends of the earth to find some 99 year old Nazi ditchdigger to prosecute, but we refuse to go after Communist guards, NVA and Cuban torturers of our pilots, etc.


34 posted on 05/22/2021 2:42:11 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: BenLurkin

Who has Stalin propaganda posters in their living room? Is this for real? Jay Carney’s family???


35 posted on 05/22/2021 2:45:40 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (PS Whenever you are stuffing Fulton County ballot boxes, election fraud goes better with Coca Cola!)
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To: BenLurkin
And Jen Psaki proudly wore a Communist hat:
36 posted on 05/22/2021 2:46:54 PM PDT by Stepan12 ("...aTo the American gulag with this guy.nd with the beasts of the earth.")
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To: Fzob

“Josef Stalin — whose brutal excesses have frequently been downplayed under Russia’s current leadership...”


That may or may not be true, I don’t know. I do know, however, that the USSR’s brutal excesses are routinely downplayed by Americans on the left. The wearing of the hammer and sickle, the proud display of of Soviet posters (I realize they are visually interesting, but so are Nazi posters) even the statue of Lenin in Seattle is OK. The swastika (even the eastern one often seen in Japan) is not.

I find it interesting too that there has been a large cross erected to commemorate the victims. Here there would be lawsuits demanding the cross’s removal. Biden manages to announce a day of prayer without mentioning God.


37 posted on 05/22/2021 2:49:05 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu
I find it interesting too that there has been a large cross erected to commemorate the victims. Here there would be lawsuits demanding the cross’s removal. Biden manages to announce a day of prayer without mentioning God.

A lot of Russians are more like us than the liberal 'elites' running DC are like us.

38 posted on 05/22/2021 2:57:19 PM PDT by GOPJ (Liz Cheney: There was NO VOTER FRAUD Winston. YOU agree Winston? How many fingers Winston...?)
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To: bobby.223; DuncanWaring

BOBBY!!!
Long time no woof, brother Dawg!!!

Hope all is well with you!


39 posted on 05/22/2021 3:11:17 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie; metmom

April 12, 2014
Why do Jay Carney and Claire Shipman decorate their house with Soviet propaganda posters?
By Thomas Lifson

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/why_do_jay_carney_and_claire_shipman_decorate_their_house_with_soviet_propaganda_posters.html


40 posted on 05/22/2021 3:12:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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