The basis for your "opinion" comes from a Russian researcher named Boris Borisov and published in Pravda last May 2008. Even the yahoos that run Wikipedia thought it was a pack of lies and pulled it from their website.
Its pure revisionism, its pure propaganda and its pure BS!
From Encarta:
"Although few people died from starvation, many did not have enough to eat. Some people searched garbage dumps for food or ate weeds. Malnutrition took a toll...."LINK
Wiki is unacceptable but Encarta isn’t...again. Given the conditions this is unrealistic.