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Pets were killed for skins and food (151–152). Nightingales and other wild birds were killed for the small amount of food their bodies provided. So many birds were killed that their sweet song was silenced for years, until stocks naturally re-populated from outside the Famine-effected areas (173).

At the beginning of 1931, 1/3^rd of the human population of his village already had been exiled or killed. He describes interrogations; propaganda campaigns to solve problems of agriculture; forced separation of families by G.P.U.; the selling of goods in exchange for food. Travel restrictions sealed people in areas of the country from which all foodstuffs had been removed. He describes hungry people tormented by thoughts of food (141–143). Significantly, he notes that the 1932 harvest was confiscated, and then left to rot at railway stations (161).

Dolot cites the November 6, 1932, Council of People’s Commissars and Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Resolution prohibiting trade, removal of merchandise, forbidding “trade of foodstuffs.” “We were imprisoned in our village without food, and sentenced to die the slow, agonizing death of starvation” (176).

The often futile begging, examples of mercy even during these worst of times, and cannibalism that resulted from the insanity of starvation are noted. The situation of children was particularly uncertain. A child, whose parents had already died, cried for help, “My mommy won’t wake up!” (207).