Hunger - The Ukraine, 1922

Article accompanying anonymous photographs of the great famine
in the Ukraine (1920-1922), depicting farmers with pieces of
dead bodies (indicating cannibalism), a pile of bodies in a
graveyard, emaciated children, etc. The article describes how
the Soviet authorities used this famine as an opportunity to
destroy the Russian Orthodox Church in accordance with Lenin's
order. Parts of a secret letter by Lenin to the Politburo is
published: ""It is now, and only now that cannibalism in some of
the starving villages is being reported and roads are strewn
with hundreds, if not thousands of corpses, that we may - and
so, we must - confiscate the precious possessions of Orthodox
Churches, putting our most ferocious energy into it and acting
mercilessly ...''.