At a time when Romania was bustling with the choice of a new prime minister, a violent tragedy was taking place in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine, which was just a border away.

In the dry, cold weather, Riltov was looking for traps in the woods outside the village to see if there was any prey.

He was disappointed by the round and round, and there was no prey. Only the crows that kept being dead in the middle of the way kept Riltov from being too sad in his heart. The churning acid in his stomach made Riltov very uncomfortable, and he knew that it was his body protesting that he had not eaten. However, thinking of his mother, sister, wife, and children at home, and the family was still waiting for him, Riltov could only continue to search for it in the silent field.

Not far away, others could be seen looking for food in the wilderness, just like him. In order to save energy, they basically do not speak. Everyone looked around vigilantly, like a lonely hungry wolf in the wilderness. However, they don't have the ability to hunt like wolves, so they can only look for hibernating animals in the wilderness. Whoever finds the vole's nest is a cause for cheering. Because the vole nest now has its stored grain, which can not only make people eat meat, but also get valuable food.

That's right, for the current Soviet Republic of Ukraine, food is the most exciting thing.

There are many reasons for this, including the impact of drought on Ukraine's domestic agriculture. However, the main influence comes from man-made, and the directive to Moscow is also one of the important driving forces. The "Five-Year Plan" had no small effect on the Soviet Union, but its impact was not only good, but also bad.

Large numbers of people were concentrated in urban factories, which reduced the Soviet agricultural population, but the tasks were increasing. In addition, in order to develop heavy industry, the Soviet Union exported most of the grain produced on collective farms in order to obtain foreign exchange and equipment for industrialization. It is also one of the triggers.

Beginning in 1928, the Soviet government collected 42% of the total grain collected in Ukraine. You know, Ukraine occupies about 3% of the entire territory of the Soviet Union.

There is also the problem of not only the expropriation of predatory grain in the countryside, but also the "collectivist" transformation of the peasants, which requires all peasants to join the "collective farms". Those who did not cooperate with the reform were directly classified as "kulaks", which were to be punished with capital punishment or exile to Siberia. Many peasants, fearful of being classified as "kulaks", naturally did not dare to farm, which led to a sharp decline in the productivity of agricultural production technology.

Proportional to the enthusiasm of the peasants in production, Ukraine's grain output has been declining year by year since 1930, and in 1930 Ukraine's output was 22.9 million tons, and the final amount of grain handed over to the Soviet Central Committee was 7.8 million tons, that is, 1/3 of it was handed over, which could barely survive.

In 1931, the total grain production was only 17.6 million tons, and 7 million tons still had to be handed over to the Soviet Central Committee, for which the peasants' grain reserves had to be used.

But the situation has been deteriorating, and by 1932 the output was only 12.8 million tons, but the issued targets stunned the Ukrainians, and instead of falling, they increased, and 7.7 million tons of grain had to be handed over! That is, more than sixty percent of the total production has to be handed over, which is much more than the Ukrainian peasants can bear.

The peasants did not want to starve to death, and of course they did not want to hand it over, and Stalin's great cause of urban industrialization, which Stalin was bent on thinking, was the most important thing and must be steadily promoted, and those local bureaucrats also needed to be "injected with water for their achievements" to invite credit, so governments at all levels, from the central to the local, sent people to collect grain by force, and could not even raise any objections, and whoever had objections was "anti-Bushvik." It also stipulates that "theft of property from collective farms" is punishable by death. In order to promote the "collective farms", a political campaign to strike hard was carried out, and tens of thousands of people were arrested and nearly 5,000 were executed.

However, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union issued another policy that would kill people, and the order of the "identity card system" was introduced throughout the Soviet Union, stipulating that all citizens of the Soviet Union, except for the peasants, could obtain status...... Then, in January 1933, the Politburo of Ukraine made a decision: "It is forbidden for railway stations to sell train tickets to peasants to leave Ukraine". Any starving people fleeing Ukraine will be arrested as a "class enemy" and will inevitably die.

Therefore, the peasants in Ukraine are completely chained to Ukraine, and they cannot even escape the famine. In the original history, the Ukrainian people could only endure this situation until Moscow found out that there was a great famine in Ukraine and came up with material relief.

But now the Ukrainian peasants have some new ideas, and that is to flee to Romania. Because Western Ukraine is occupied by Romania, the connection between the two sides will not be completely blocked. Although the Soviet Ukrainian government tried its best to seal the border between the two countries, it still could not completely prevent the two sides from connecting the two sides. After all, there are too many people related to each other in the two Ukrainians, how can it be possible for the Ukrainian people not to understand Western Ukraine, which is under Romanian rule. So about the situation in Western Ukraine, the Ukrainian people in the USSR more or less knew something.

And in the village where Riltov lived, there happened to be a person who was related to Siulan.

Solvasv was a good friend of Riltov's, and while Riltov was looking for food in the wilderness, his friend came to look for him.

"Aunt Norna, is Riltorf at home?"

"He's gone, he's gone outside the village."

"Thank you."

When Riltov returned to the village with the dead crow, he happened to see his friend Solvasv waiting for someone at the entrance of the village in the cold wind.

"Solvasev, who are you waiting for?"

Riltov, who saw clearly from afar that he was his friend, greeted him.

And when Solvasv saw Riltov, he hurriedly stepped forward and whispered. "I'm waiting for you."

"Wait for me to do something."

Not understanding his friend's intentions at all, he was dragged to a remote corner by Solwasf, and his friend looked around and whispered. "Now I can't live this day, I want to leave the village."

"Then you want to go ......"

Riltov, who was about to ask, seemed to understand at this time, and after looking around for a while and not seeing anyone else, he whispered. "You don't want to die, you dare to say this kind of thing here."

True, on the territory of Soviet Ukraine, Romania is a taboo subject. Whoever dares to talk about this topic casually, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will let them know how serious the consequences are.

However, unlike Riltov's cautiousness, Solvasf said nonchalantly. "Because I know you won't say it to anyone else. There is no way to live this life, if we don't leave again, our family will starve to death, this time I plan to go over there to find relatives, at least we can live. This time I think your family will not be easy, so I hope that your family can walk with us and take care of you on the way. ”