On the First Night | Russia’s Island of Death | Nazino Tragedy
Channel: Miasma Reading
Date: 2024-01-31

On the first night, it snowed. An additional 295 people passed away from the freezing Serbian temperature. 

The guards only rationed the detainees 4 kg of flour as food, and because there were no tools or ovens to cook the flour, people had to eat the flour raw. Most started suffocating on the powder. Some started mixing it with the contaminated river water to make it more digestible, but it spread dysentery in the group.

There were already many disturbances from the new inhabitants about the lack of food. Because of this, the guard tried a new distribution method. They started handing out flour on the opposite side of the island. Prisoners had to assemble into groups of 150, with a leader. The leader's duty was to collect the ration for their group members; however, since most leaders were criminals, they hoarded the rations to themselves.

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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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