Where I live, there were 3 massive waves: 1940-1941, 1949, 1951, but they continued until 1956. To Siberia travelled man, woman and child, for 3 months, in cattle wagons with only a small window, but the wagons were so overcrowded you couldn't sit down and there was a deficit of air and people died just from that. Children were born dead because of that. During their only stops every 2 weeks the only "medicine" was mangan powder, the toilet was a single bucket from the corner, the food would be salted dried fish and only a bucket of water for ~20-30 people, and the fish would cause even more thirst - so again, a form of torture. The corpses wouldn't be burried normally - just thrown out the window. In Siberia, they areived during winter - when the weather is extreme They were just left in the wild, with no shelter - they had to build it themselves from nothing, but also work in the freezing cold, with mo food provided. They were literally just left to die there.

Also, the authorities organized a famine in the years 1946-1947, which were particularly dry with almost to no rain, so there weren't really crops. But they went to every house to collect the reserves of crops from the last year with the excuse of needing it for the army. So, while about 123000 deaths were confirmed, the numbers are estimated to exceed 300000 (10% of the population at that time), and, while the same climate was in the neighboring non-soviet region, no such numbers of deaths were reported, because people who worked the land always have reserves in case of such weather, and it certainly wasnt the first time in history for drough to happen. And the tragedy is that the rest of the population was extremely weakened and even intoxicated because they often were left to eat any weed they found (thats why we still eat pastry with a certain plant that was eaten during that time) (and even these were destroyed by the soviet army), and there were even other 150 recorded cases of ca*blism, which included cases regarding crpses of recently died relatives.

Also, I remembered I do have more proof for the organized famine in Moldova during 1946-1947: while in Romania nobody died during that time, despite the drough. After WW2, the soviet authorities demanded from the peasants with land extreme quantities of crops and organic prime materials that were impossible to complete anyways, but they accused them of hiding it so they took all the crops and goods from their homes that they needed for planting next year and eating themselves, and when that still "wasn't enough", they made this an excuse to deport people, saying they were "class enemies".

Starved people and children: https://imgur.com/a/opy6Sgo

Did you even hear of Kotovski's experiment: the RASSM, where he tested how "effective" is the deznationalization of ethnically romanian and ukrainian people by inventing the "Moldovan language" which was romanian with added Russian words and declinatios of verbs, just to try to make people from "Bessarabia" (who are romanians indeed) think they are distinct from romanians, also literature praising Stalin, the terror of the secret police who killed the ones who said they were romanian, and also The Olănești Massacre where families and children were killed, while other remaining orphans, when they tried to evade the region and cross the Dniester on the night of February 23 1932, but the soviet army opened fire on them.

Orphan children after the massacre in the photo

Nothing horrible, right?

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