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Cannibalism in the Soviet Union
In the years 1920-21, the Soviet Union was hit hard by famine. Civil war had wiped out grain stores, and drought affected harvests. Struggling peasants and Gulag prisoners alike fell victim to starvation. Hungry individuals ate what they could find – the last of their livestock, cats and dogs, and then finally, fellow human beings. Cannibalism in Soviet Russia and elsewhere in the Soviet Union manifested itself in prisons camps, in urban settings, and in the countryside. The practice of cannibalism was seen as a survival measure rather than a true crime by those who had nothing else to eat.
Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – Crime or Compassion?
It goes without saying that cannibalism in the Soviet Union was outlawed. Those who were caught cannibalizing their fellow citizens were sent to prisons, even though cannibalism was practiced in the Gulag, as well. Parents of starving children might cook and serve the bodies of strangers, neighbors, or relatives who had died in order to give their offspring a chance at survival. While some acts of cannibalism certainly occurred because of psychotic hunger, other acts of cannibalism were undertaken as practicalities due to lack of available food.
Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – Cannibalistic Murder
While some individuals ate the bodies of the already dead, others murdered for the purpose of providing themselves with food. Gangs of children would kill adults, while adults would find children to murder and eat. Escaped prisoners might take along fellow inmates to serve as future meals – unbeknownst to the escapees’ companions themselves .
Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – Cannibalism for Revenge
Cannibalism in the Soviet Union was sometimes a result of an individual or individuals seeking revenge. Those who worked and lived together might suspect one of their company of withholding goods, of lying to authorities, or of other actions that were detrimental to one or more starving persons. The offending person might then be killed and cooked.
Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – The Secret Ingredient
When food supply was low, meat pies might be filled with the innards of the dead. While sales were stopped if officials caught wind of such actions, undoubtedly many hungry individuals became cannibals unawares.
Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – Bodies as a Resource
Cemeteries had to be guarded against cannibals during this period in Soviet history - hungry peasants would steal bodies for food. Guards at prisons would feed live prisoners with the bodies of those who had died. Students would sell corpses to the hungry to raise funds. Livers, lungs, and other body parts were stolen from dissection rooms to be cooked and served for meals.
The practice of cannibalism in the Soviet Union is certainly one indication of how dire circumstances were on a most basic level. However, the Soviet government pretended both the famine and the practice of cannibalism were fiction, so few real measures were taken taken to ease the suffering of the people.
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ISSEI SAGAWA’S frige where he puts his human victims and eats them.
Facts about Cannibalism
- Sexual cannibalism has hit the news in the last decade or so. Several predators have used the internet to find victims. Armin Meiwes advertised that he was looking for someone to eat – and actually got a reply. He promptly slaughtered and ate Jürgen Brandes, and was convicted of manslaughter. Jeffrey Dahmer killed and presumably ate portions of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He was killed by another prisoner in 1994.
- Sexual cannibalism is one of the most rare and extreme sexual fetishes. People who have fantasies of slaughtering and eating someone seldom do something about it. They appear to be happy with keeping it in the realm of fantasy.
- Many fairytales contain references to cannibalism. Hansel and Gretel is the most obvious example.
- The Aztecs are believed to have cannibalised thousands of people each year in order to appease their gods.
- There are two types of cannibalism: exocannibalism and endocannibalism. The first type is defined as eating members of another group (conquered enemies, for instance) and the second one, the eating of members of your own group, usually associated with ritual burial ceremonies. A widespread belief was that by eating the flesh of a person, you gained their knowledge and skills.
- In Papua New Guinea, many tribes practised cannibalism for ritualistic purposes until the 1960s. It was found that many of them suffered from a disease called “kuru”, which they had contracted from eating human tissue. It was thought to be a form of human “mad cow disease”.
- Famine often leads to survival cannibalism. Well-documented cases include the famines in Egypt (1073 – 1064) when the Nile failed to flood for eight years, the Great Famine in Europe in 1315 – 1317 and the famine in China from 1958 - 1961 (when Mao Zedong’s agricultural policies went horribly wrong).
- Cannibalism is often seen to be the height of savage behaviour. People who have eaten human flesh, for whatever reason, tend to be viewed with scorn and disgust.
- In 1972, an Uruguayan rugby team flew across the Andes and crashed. Fifteen people died in the crash and several in an avalanche or from starvation. The remaining passengers ended up eating the flesh of the victims in order to survive. They were only rescued 72 days later.
- Early Christians were often wrongly persecuted by the Romans, because it was thought that they indulged in cannibalism during their communion rites. Many people died because of this error.
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Human meat for sale in Malmö 2008
Every year nearly 100 million land animals to become food for humans and that’s only in Sweden. Eery vegetarian can save up to 100 animals every year.
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In 1972, a group of 16 people, including members of a Uruguayan rugby team were put in a tough situation when a plane crash stranded them in the Andes Mountains in Chile. During their 70 days in the mountains, the surviving members of the team ate the flesh of others who died in the plane crash.