Feofila Bylina  | Russia’s Island of Death | Nazino Tragedy
Channel: Miasma Reading
Date: 2024-02-07

One account from Feofila Bylina, an eyewitness, of a survivor brought to her home by a guard, retold:
"Once a woman from the Island of Death was brought to our house. She was being taken to another camp... The woman was taken into the back room to spend the night and I saw that her calves had been cut off. I asked and she said, "They did that to me on the Island of Death - cut them off and cooked them." All the meat on her calves was cut away. She was able to move on her own. She looked like an old woman, but really she was just a little over 40."

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The Nazino Tragedy started as a proposal, created by USSR officials, to rehome people who were presumed to be rebels into forced settlements or agricultural prisons. However, Approximately 7,000 prisoners soon found themselves abandoned on a remote Siberian island with scarce food, no tools or shelters, fighting for survival. Eventually, some resorted to cannibalism as a means to survive.


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