Digging up the past in Russia - NSFW

All of the millions of dead in the former U.S.S.R. during WW2 crated an unusual and seldom discussed situation in Russia, exploding wolf populations. These animals pretty much lived on human corpses during the war and when the killing stopped they began to dine on live victims. I read somewhere that in 1946 in the U.S.S.R. an army convoy was dispatched to relieve a village that was completely at the mercy of starving wolf packs. Made for interesting reading.
 
I heard similar stories to one above from my older relatives in north-eastern Poland right after war.Solution came from poachers and Red Army stationed there.

That situation lasted until about 1950 or so when large,wild game pretty much vanished and commies clamped down hard on poaching and civilian firearm use.

Just about anyone form eastern Poland can tell you tales (very often true) of unmarked war graves, battlefields and unexploded munitions found in forests,ravines and even cities.

RIP to all of them,regardless of a uniform or nationality.
 
Why can't it be as neat and tidy as this...

FW190 pilot crash-lands and survives only to be taken prisoner. Forty-odd years later his aircraft is discovered by hunters, pilot was still alive to hear the story!
Man...I only find stubby beer bottles...


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C2, that clip is a couple of years old now. The wreck disappeared very quickly afterwards and hasn't turned up anywhere. There is a rumor of it reappearing in Germany and another of it in the UK. Supposedly the salvagers got a quarter of a million US$ for it before it left Russia. There were quite a few found, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. I guess the Soviets frowned heavily upon the general population running around the countryside or wilderness. Sounds pretty much like out antis here.
 
John Sukey said:
One has to remember just what the germans did to the Russians and no distinction was made between soldiers and civillians. Herding people into churches and barns and then setting them on fire, mass executions of civillians because one german soldier was shot at by partizans. Starvation in Konzentrationlagers. And it was not only the Einzats gruppen that did that, When they were short of the SS, the Whermacht were willing helpers. I really have no sympathy. There are literaly mountains of bones remaining at some of those camps and NONE of them were every returned to families primarily because the families were also in those piles.
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Exactly and Well Said. We don't build Shrines and Statues to Honor Modern Day Losers, Rapists and Murderers like Russel Williams, Paul Bernardo and Pickton from Picktons Pig Farm, and Insurgents. Just equate the 1940's Murderer and Rapist to the Modern Day Losers above and it all makes sense.
 
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Mike Webb said:
All of the millions of dead in the former U.S.S.R. during WW2 crated an unusual and seldom discussed situation in Russia, exploding wolf populations. These animals pretty much lived on human corpses during the war and when the killing stopped they began to dine on live victims. I read somewhere that in 1946 in the U.S.S.R. an army convoy was dispatched to relieve a village that was completely at the mercy of starving wolf packs. Made for interesting reading.
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I read a page something like this in the Book Enemy at the Gates.
Things even got more interesting in the Gulag. The German Prisoners were fed corn and not much of it. Since humans cannot digest corn, the Germans were very ingenius and recycled it and had a production line going. They would eat it, sh*t it out, pick out the corn, wash it, store it, and re-eat it again to survive...

On a lighter note:

That old saying, "You can eat the Corn out of my s---t". I wonder if this is where it originated?
 
In The Book by William Craig, The Battle for Stalingrad Enemy at the Gates (1973)

In the Russian Gulags:

Page 349-350 talks about headless cadavers, eating and scooping brains from skulls and eating other body parts and organs, Cannibalism had begun starting in Feb 1943.

Page 351

Prisoners who refused to eat human flesh used other tricks to survive. At Krinovaya, a group of Italian entrepreneurs retrieved excrement from huge latrine ditches and with bare hands picked out undigested corn and millet, which they washed and ate. German prisoners swiftly improved the process. Setting up an assembly line of sieve-like tin cups, they strained the faeces through them and trapped so much grain that they started a black market in it.
 
Very interesting about the Gulag! There is a story from the Ukrainian side of my family, (God bless my 89 year old Babusya!) all about how bread was cut with sawdust, as there was not enough flour to make it. This stuff went through you worse than mineral oil, and could block or cut your intestines. In my family, my grandmother came up with an idea to go and collect pine needles, grow mushrooms in horse dung in the basement, boil + grind bones, and make bread with that + with what little flour there was. The needles gave vitamin C to prevent scurvy, the mushrooms helped with protein, the bones etc gave calcium. My grandfather was a surgeon before the Soviets, suspecting him of helping German officers (he refused to pick sides to help wounded men), broke both his legs after being ratted by an informant. That bread kept them alive in the 30's and 40's. I thank all the wonders they escaped and my mother was born here, in this wonderful country.
 
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