Timothy Snyder Quotes

In Ukraine's Cities - Kharkiv, Kiev, Stalino, Dnipropetrovsk - Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Waited Each Day For A Simple Loaf Of Bread. In Kharkiv, The Republic's Capital, Jones Saw A New Sort Of Misery. People Appeared At Two O'clock In The Morning To Queue In Front Of Shops That Did Not Open Until Seven. On An Average Day Forty Thousand People Would Wait For Bread. Those In Line Were So Desperate To Keep Their Places That They Would Cling To The Belts Of Those Immediately In Front Of Them. Some Were So Weak From Hunger That They Could Not Stand Without The Ballast Of Strangers. The Waiting Lasted All Day, And Sometimes For Two. Pregnant Women And Maimed War Veterans Had Lost Their Right To Buy Out Of Turn, And Had To Wait In Line With The Rest If They Wanted To Eat. Somewhere In Line A Woman Would Wail, And The Moaning Would Echo Up And Down The Line, So That The Whole Group Of Thousands Sounded Like A Single Animal With An Elemental Fear.

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