User:Aitantv/Lia Dostlieva (2022) Grain, Ink, and Stones: The Story of Ukrainian Hunger. e-flux

Lia Dostlieva (2022) Grain, Ink, and Stones: The Story of Ukrainian Hunger. e-flux Journal, Issue #128, Food and Agriculture, June 2022. (Download: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/128/)

"Sometimes, it's difficult to realize how deeply food and food-related practices are entangled with our social interactions. Food is an integral part of human culture and identity. But all those food-based rituals rely on food being easy to acquire in sufficient quantities. A lack of food not only threatens human survival as such but also disrupts cultural rituals. Hunger reduces a person to their body, to exhausted flesh whose existence becomes centered around satisfying very basic needs. This experience is impossible to imagine for those living in relative comfort. But according to UN World Food Programme, 276 million people worldwide were already facing acute hunger at the start of 2022." (Dostilieva 2022)
"In 1932-33, Soviet Ukraine was swept by a terrifying wave of hunger as the Soviet government starved to death up to four million people, mostly peasants, with an artificial famine. Organized and armed brigades confiscated harvests, which, along with restrictions on villagersÕ movements, led to mass starvation and death. Dead bodies littered the streets and corpses were buried in mass graves. This period was later called "the Holodomor" from the Ukrainian expression "moryty holodom,"

to starve someone to death." (Dostilieva 2022)