so, youre an average person in 1946, lets say a mongolian farmer. japan had two cities destroyed with a new weapon that no one can even explain, tokyo has been firebombed to ash, the soviets are eating themselves alive. whispers come from the south of unthinkable horrors committed by the japanese during wartime on the chinese. many people have disappeared; ultimately, families are ruined. your crops wont grow, and its starting to rain. the war has poisoned your land. in 20 years, you wont even recognize the rest of the world. in 40, you might as well be an alien from a different planet. of course, none of that matters. the rain last year was radioactive, the crops didnt grow at all, and he died of starvation before the cancer even had a chance to set in. he follows the millions of dead around ten years earlier from the holodomor, when eastern europe suffered from stalins planned and controlled famines. the suffering continues in ukraine and moldova in 1946, as another of stalins famines rips through europe. it gets so bad that children are sold off by their parents into slavery to be cannibalized.
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