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The famine in the Volga region. (1921 - 1922)
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Scene №1 The famine in the Volga region
Inspection stacks farmers and agronomists.
Shredding straw on the threshing floor.
Women in the field harvested quinoa cooking.
People with armfuls of quinoa.
People in the field are collected pasture, tearing tufts of grass.
Man sitting on the porch of a house with swollen feet from hunger.
The swollen and blackened feet starving.
An exhausted old people help each other to move.
Starving the inhabitants of one of the Volga villages are sitting by the fence, the face of adults and children.
The peasants left the village, the convoy moves along the street.
Camel, harnessed to a cart.
The street passing convoy of refugees fleeing from hunger.
Abandoned village houses.
The refugees were going to stay in the ears of the fields, put them in a bunch of carts.
The old man found thresh ears.
The Commissioner is talking to one of the refugees, the sick girl lying on the ground and raves.
People sitting in the carts, threshed found in the ears.
Refugees prepare soup at the stake.
A child next to a dying mother, a kind of refugee camp.
Commissioner Commission on the fight against hunger speaks to refugees.
Refugee camp in the town square, in a bucket of boiled soup.
A child near his mother dying of starvation.
People pull behind a truck with things being taken in their children.
Loading the steamer bags of seed grain.
Overloading of seed grain of boxcars on a cart, weighing and shipping of grain.
Filling bags of grain, grain weighing.
The downloaded and ready to send bags of seed grain.
Refugees line up for free food.
The distribution of free food to refugees from the field kitchen.
convoys of refugees resettled in Siberia and Turkestan.
Starving children at the entrance to the assembly point to be sent to the province with a favorable yield.
Children get up and go into the building assembly point.
Unloading from train wagons starving children in Smolensk.
Children look out the car window.
Children brought from Saratov region in Smolensk, standing at the car, health care workers take away children.
Faces and hands of malnourished children.
A man stands at the car and holds on hands of the exhausted child.
Calendar
1921-1922Locations
Saratov region
Smolensk
Russia
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