The pictures below were taken by Western reporters who visited Russia in 1921-1923.
A group of homeless children.
People in a Moscow tram.
Homeless children living in an icy basement.
Portraits of homeless children from Moscow.
Celebration of a solemn event on Red Square, Moscow, 1923.
Fight of the homeless.
A homeless girl.
Homeless kids of Kazan.
Lev Borisovich Kamenev at a meeting.
Former representatives of the upper class sell out remains of their property.
Victims of hunger in the Povolzhiye region.
M.Kalinin delivers a speech in front of the peasants.
Two hungry kids.
Parade of the Red Army in Moscow.
The refuges came from Samara trying to escape hunger.
Helping small kids in villages suffering from hunger.
Rendering medical assistance to victims of hunger.
Food for those suffering from hunger.
Distribution of food.
15 Catholic priests are being judged.
The kids are fed by an American Committee in Kazan.
The homeless are building wooden houses.
Selling cigarettes.
A former rich peasant is asking for help.
The people have arrived to Moscow from regions.
Refugees.
A street in Moscow,1923.
Location: Moscow
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Seriously. This…this is a different world perfectly captured by this post.
Homeless and hungry people always remains as victims of changes, revolutions and wars, regardless of the politics. Same as today.
Sad reality…
The Soviet Union made enormous progress in a short period of time, but, man, they paid a hell of a price for it.
May Communism and communists burn in Hell.
If it wasn’t for the capitalist nations invading there would have been no famine. If it wasn’t for the Bolsheviks requisitioning grain from the peasants, the cities would have starved. Learn some history before making ignorant comments.
The “capitalist invasion” was in fact a small intervention by the allied countries initially trying to avoid the Eastern Front of collapsing. French, British and American troops arrived in the spring of 1918 and a year later, most were already withdrawn. The Russian civil war itself lasted from the end of 1917 until 1923. Most of the “capitalist invaders” were hardly involved in any fighting – except for the Czech legion, which consisted of former Czech prisoners of war who were recruited by the tsarist regime to fight the Austro-Hungarian empire with the promise of gaining independence. Caught up in the civil war they fought their way out of Russia via Siberia – one can call these hardly “capitalist invaders”. Americans, British and French sent small contingents of a few thousand troops each. Compared with the millions fighting in both the Red and the White armies – one can’t imagine how these negligeable contingents could be responsible for starting the civil war or creating a famine which started in the spring of 1921. By the way, it was thanks to the American Relief Administration which sent food to Russia that not more people died. At least 10 million people were fed with the food help sent by American and British organisations, paid for by American taxpayer’s money. Food aid was sent to Russia until 1923. At that moment, the Soviet government was busy with selling grain to forgeing markets to invest in the industry, rather than to use the grain to feed their own people. Learn history before copying propaganda.
It was bad. And then, in the 30’s, it got worse.
The result of the Civil War and a drought, not because of communism. After the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) there was hunger, devastation, and refugees fleeing the countryside in the Southern States, just like the pictures above. That is why many Southerners in the U.S. are still bitter and anti-federal government. The Soviets let the Hoover Relief Commission in and cooperated for the most part. When the trains carrying food were delayed, Comrade Dzerzhinsky took over transportation and untangled the mess. History is gray, not black and white.
So sad, alll type of wars are horrible.
“Even The King cannot save poverty” – Proverb
Foe beeing communist should be only one penalty – starvation in wet dark basement.
INGROZTOR.!!!Ce inseamna saracia,mizeria,foamea.
This is the future of the USA with Oboma aka socialist in control.
Americans will be living like this, great example of socialism at its finest with MAN-MADE food shortages and rationing.
Oboma would be proud…
You can just thank the communists for all this suffering. True, there were a lot of poor people in czarist Russia, but not starvation and famine.
You need to freshen up on history.
George Orwell’s Animal Farm – the pigs (communists) eventually became human (capitalists) ..the system corrupted. War mongering aggressive Capitalism is the greater evil