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Human heads sold at the market stall for cannibals: Haunting images show Russian peasants selling body parts during 1920s famine that forced families to eat their relatives
Human heads sold at the market stall for cannibals: Haunting images show Russian peasants selling body parts during 1920s famine that forced families to eat their relatives decayofdiscourse At the height of the Russian famine of 1921, a couple sells human parts at market. The desperation of Russian peasants facing starvation during a famine that gripped the country in the years after the revolution is revealed by these haunting pictures of human heads for sale. More than five million people died during the catastrophe, which began in 1921 and lasted through 1922. In one photo, a couple stand solemnly in their thick winter coats behind a table laden with children's body parts, including two heads. Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, had been in charge of the country since 1917. In a chilling disregard for the suffering of his fellow countrymen he instructed food to be seized from the poor. Lenin's Bolsheviks party believed peasants w