'You are starving? This is not famine yet, when your women start eating their children then you may come and say we are starving.
--Communist leader Leon Trotsky, 1921, after being asked for help from starving peasants.

[Above: The walking dead.]

[Above: Communist guard of the Voluntary Executive Committee, slaughtering a dog for food, winter 1921-1922, Balakovsky District. The look on this man's face tells us all we need to know. It is one of pain and utter despair. One can easily imagine that he was not really a volunteer.]