Russia in the Mist: 1921-1923 Years through the Eyes of Western Press Photographers

The beginning of the 20s of the last century in Russia is Civil war, famine, devastation, economic chaos and rampant banditry. We present to your attention a selection of photos of Western correspondents working in Russia in 1921 – 1923.

1. Street vendors

2. Street kids group

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4. People in the Moscow tram

5. Street children living in the icy basement

6. Portraits of Moscow street children

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10. Solemn celebration on the Red Square in Moscow. Russia, 1923

11. Street fight

12. Frozen street kid. Moscow

13. Street girl

14. Homeless on the streets of Kazan

15. Lev B. Kamenev at the rally

16. Representatives of the "former" sell off the remnants of their property to buy products. Kazan

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18. Victims of famine in the Volga region are scattered on the ground near the railway tracks

19. Volga region. Carriages with the corpses of the dead from starvation

20. Victims of famine in the Volga region

21. Speech by Mikhail Kalinin to the peasants

22. Hunger victim

23. Child dying of hunger in the Volga region

24. Two hungry children from the Volga region

25. The parade of the Red Army in Moscow

26. Children suffering from hunger in the Volga region

27. Young victims of famine in the Volga region

28. Refugees fleeing hunger in the Samara province

29. Helping babies and young children in starving villages

30. Medical assistance provided to victims of hunger

31. Food assistance to victims of famine in the Volga region

32. Help for victims of famine in the Volga region

33. Family starving in one of the Volga villages

34. Food Distribution in Famine Provinces

35. The trial of 15 by Catholic priests chaired by Krylenko. Xnumx

36. Children receive food from the American Committee in Kazan.

37. Homeless build wooden houses

38. Homeless in Petrograd in anticipation of the opening of one of the centers of help

39. Cigarette traders

40. Former fist with kids asking for food

41. Recruits from the province in Moscow. Xnumx

42. Refugees on the way from the steppes

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44. Street in Moscow, 1923

Comments

[grizzlir]

These Western journalists flock together like crows. There are a lot of photos from the 20s on Western websites. But in the 30s, for some reason, they no longer liked taking photos in the USSR. You can find photos, but very few. Basically, our people started taking photos and there was something to show.

[patriot64]

You don’t know history or you know it from Soviet textbooks. Witnesses of those times talk about the totalitarian destruction of the peasantry by the Bolsheviks! And the peasants did not want any revolution and did not think about it. What kind of people need a bloody massacre? !!! Creepy and truthful photographs of those times ... I saw the same in the archives of Ulyanovsk-Simbirsk!

[xorgi]

You know a lot about peasants! But can you tell us about their life BEFORE the revolution? It is only in history books that happiness came to the peasants after 1862. If the peasants had not supported, there would have been no revolution.

Essentially: the photos are of course scary. Only now this unfortunately occurs. And sometimes worse.

[Pancho]

Is that all that scared you? Not the dying children, but the fact that they were photographed by foreigners?

[His]

Surprising: that nature then could not feed people? Fish, mushrooms, various animals.
There is no normal scientific study of that famine. Most likely there were elements of the reservation of people on a small land area. Artificial hunger through the fault of the Bolsheviks

[vostok-47]

Yes, unfortunately it happened, after the abolition of the NEP, foodstuffs fell sharply. This was a thoughtless step by the country's leadership, wishing to get as much money as possible from the "Kulakov".

[Brother Sarych]

It must be assumed that you have no idea when the NEP was — otherwise you did not write this in this article. which refers to just a slightly different period ...

[common man]

Let's remember the recent 90s. Homeless children on the streets, homeless people look no better than in the photographs. It is customary to blame Soviet power there. And who is to blame? By the way, they left the homeless pretty quickly. And this is the merit of Dzerzhinsky. Maybe the methods are not the most humane, but ...
And now .. Maybe someone will post the same photos from Germany after the First World War, from the English colonies in Africa and Asia, from the USA during the Great Depression? So as not to be so one-sided.

[zzbear]

I think that it’s not worth making excuses, you need to know and remember what we had and in the future try our best to prevent this from happening.

[ZloySobacka]

Disgusting Jesuitry, photographing victims of hunger, selling bread to Soviet Russia only for gold. Once again I am delighted by the feat of the Soviet people and its Leaders, who, despite the most brutal opposition of the entire "free" world, managed to raise the country from such ruins.

[snek]

Quote: ZloySobacka

Disgusting Jesuitism, photographing victims of hunger, selling bread of Soviet Russia only for gold

How do you rake in one pile. The lack of any help to the former World War I ally is really disgusting. But everything needs to be documented. Or do you think you need to photograph only the pleasant and the cute - kittens and puppies in funny hats?

[Leisure]

That was almost a century ago. To this day, in our country, old people do not brush crumbs off the table. Tens of thousands of peasants died of hunger in an agrarian country, and the Bolsheviks' only concern is holding parades and rallies. America is not far behind, whose favorite pastime is profiting from the misfortune of others. In general, everyone "had a blast" on the peasants.

[755962]

In the years 1918-1920. all food in this region was seized by the Bolshevik food detachments. And as a result, a terrible food disaster erupted, which was aggravated by the harsh winter of 1920-1921, followed by drought. And how did the country's leadership behave in this situation? It sent to the starving provinces the chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, M.I. Kalinin, who persuaded the peasants not to leave their native places in search of food and offered them to cut horses, eat grass, etc. On June 1, 1921, the “Council of Labor and Defense” issued a special decree “On the cessation of the indiscriminate movement of refugees,” according to which the starving were actually locked up in their provinces with the aim that they would not run abroad and into the cities of central Russia.

[Vanek]

FEARFULLY!
grizzlir,
And in the 30s, if I’m not mistaken, there was something similar in the United States. And or not?
I feel very sorry for the children. My grandmother was born on the 23rd, but she didn't say anything like that. Maybe she didn't remember, or maybe she didn't want to remember.

[подводник]

And Ukraine presents claims to us for the "Holodomor" (with the filing of amers).
In my opinion, the Amers didn’t have anything like it, if they faced such a thing, there wouldn’t be amers

[nnz226]

It was during the miserable Yushchenko's time, when they were celebrating the anniversary of the famine (not "Holodomor" - a term from the CIA) of 1932-33, that they published an album with photos of the victims of the famine, and there was such a scandal throughout the "enlightened Western world", because they printed photos of American starving children during the Great Depression, and passed them off as hungry Ukrainians. There was a squeal, especially because they "dumped" on the whole world that hungry children were not only in the "wild" USSR, but in "prosperous, civilized" America...

[Brother Sarych]

I was guarded by photo captions!
There was more than one famine in Russia, the village was practically starving for the whole prospect, and confusion is possible ...
There was a terrible famine after the Civil, some relief came under the NEP, although the people were not particularly fed up during this period either.
A severe famine coincided with a period of collectivization, which was already much later, and then you could see a starving former fist with a much greater probability. than before ...
There was a famine after the Great Patriotic War, but this does not apply to this topic ...
My grandmother was a street girl for some time in the early twenties, my other grandmother was dispossessed in the early thirties, and one of my grandfathers first ate enough white bread to the full only in 1937 ...
But this is so - by the way, I had to ...
By the way, it was during this period that the notorious Armand Hammer, almost "the best friend of the Soviet country", ascended on our mountain ...
A more accurate definition of this character will not miss the filter, but you guessed it - yes?
This is all our story ...

[Strabo]

The topic is not simple and there is not a single normal answer Why did famine affect the richest regions, where they have always traditionally sown grain and received colossal harvests. Kuban, Ukraine, black earth. The answer is simple - it was a planned action, if you like, genocide aimed at the destruction of the peoples of Russia. All grain and even seeds for sowing were confiscated from the peasants. Everything was taken under threat of death. Food detachments were rampant. The grain and food tax imposed by the Bolsheviks and in effect since the spring of 1917 led to a reduction in the production of food by the peasants. And who made the revolution in Russia, I think you know.
The Holodomor in the Volga region made it possible in one fell swoop to solve the problem of the growing activity of the national movement against the zhidovskaya power. To date, data on losses from the famine have not been published, and the figures are terrible.

[xorgi]

The phrase "The grain and surplus appropriation system introduced by the Bolsheviks and operating since the spring of 1917 was quoted ..." contains THREE historical mistakes:
1. introduced by the tsarist government (confirmed by the interim and Bolsheviks)
2. acted from December 1916
3. By 1920, the surplus appraisal included all products, including bread

[Brother Sarych]

Yes, quite right, and what could the Bolsheviks introduce in the spring of 1917?
It must be assumed that the surplus did not contribute to strengthening the love of the peasantry and the tsarist government ...

[sszvyagin]

These are terrible pieces of the history of our country. It is painful to look at it, but you need to know, remember, pass it on to children and grandchildren so that it does not happen again. After us, they have to defend and continue the construction of Great Russia.

[Gurza]

Horror of course, it was a terrible time. God forbid we go back to such a thing.
Do we live badly under Putin?

[SAVA555.IVANOV]

Photos with street children can even now be passed off as photos of the 90s, he will only add that these are children of drug addicts who either died or in prisons and "good law enforcement officers" live in their former apartments, or sold these apartments through dummies

[LiRoy]

I have a direct look at allergies to law enforcement officers.

[SAVA555.IVANOV]

An allergy to people who are not power, namely ordinary people betrayed, taking along with all sorts of scum to mock people whom they pledged to defend, although I understand that not everyone is as they are represented by some people including me.
Only the troubles began and they are happy to try, still can not stop

[LiRoy]

I agree with you that at the moment they are trying to shake the country. 5-column unwind in full.

[LiRoy]

The photographs are scary, and comparable to photographs of US workers' quarters during the Great Depression. It’s just amazing how difficult the Bolsheviks pulled the country out in the conditions of a completely destroyed state apparatus and sabotage by pests. Huge work was done by Dzerzhinsky to eradicate lack of porosity.
When the Germans entered the village during the Second World War, they were shocked that they were not met by some natives as they expected, but competent people who were able to control complex equipment.

[Isonn]

Quote: Own

Surprising: that nature then could not feed people? Fish, mushrooms, various animals.

"Are they too lazy to go to the store and buy groceries?"

[Georg Shep]

So where is the trial of the communist beast? ..
These photo documents are in themselves an indictment of the Bolshevik monsters and their Western patrons, whose representatives were swiping these photos, while they themselves lived in Metropols and Nationals, and shopped at Torgsins.
How can we forget and forgive such a system that physically and morally destroyed our, first of all, the Russian People. Look at the faces - this is our ancestors fed ...

[SAVA555.IVANOV]

The court should be administered over those who sponsored the "communist beast" from the very beginning

[Georg Shep]

I completely agree, but they are still in power ...

[Kolyma]

A terrible time ... God forbid someone is in a similar situation ...

SAVA555.IVANOV - there were enough animals from both sides, so that the court should be ruled so over all who robbed the people.