Yet as Ukrainians by the thousands slowly starved to death, their
bodies consuming themselves to the point where
emaciated people simply fell
dead on the streets or along the roadside, «Soviet exporters,» Applebaum reports, «continued to ship [out
of the country] eggs, poultry, apples, nuts, honey, jam, canned fish, canned vegetables, and canned meat... that could have helped to feed Ukraine.»
One is a painfully realistic, lifesize stone figure
of the
dead Christ, eyes closed, chest
emaciated,
body taut.