An article by Natalia Romanets, Doctor of Historical Sciences

We propose you to read the article by Natalia Romanets, Doctor of Historicasl Sciences, on the punishing the criminals – the spreading of the frontiers in the conditions of the Holodomor. The author breaks one of the myths of Stalin's supporters about the "iron order" under the dictator's rule.

"According to the documents, one of the effects of the Holodomor was the worsening of the criminal situation in the republic in the first half of 1933. With increasing hunger, the crime rate among the population increased: murders, robberies for a loaf of bread became a daily occurrence.

This is evidenced by an anonymous letter from the so-called ‘Communist Group’ to the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Communist Party of Bolsheviks (February of 1933): ‘Many apartments, both in the village and in the towns, are closed from the inside, day and night because everyone lives in a constant fear, and there is no guarantee that someone will [not] knock, they will [not] take away everything that is edible and will [not] kill in broad daylight ... ”.

The article is available at the link.