The Russian famine of 1921, also known as Povolzhye famine, which began in the early spring of that year, and lasted through 1922, was a severe famine that occurred in Bolshevik Russia. The famine, which killed an estimated 5 million, affected mostly the Volga-Ural region...Additional photos at First Time User, via Old Photos, Young Kids.
The famine resulted from the combined effect of the disruption of the agricultural production, which already started during World War I and continued through the disturbances of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Russian Civil War...
Painful images. My great-grandparents lived in the German community in the Volga valley during that time, and survived the famine thanks to food sent from Canada. These kinds of postcards must have provoked a lot of people to give to that cause. Thanks for sharing this.
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