EVENT INFORMATION

1
September
1946

Drought and harvest failure aggravate food crisis

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๐Ÿ“… 1 September 1946 ๐Ÿ“

Severe drought followed several years of poor precipitation. The crop failure interacted with procurement, distribution, and reconstruction policy to produce a famine that struck Ukraine and Moldavia particularly hard; no single weather explanation accounts for the scale or distribution of hunger.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Ukrainian and Moldavian rural communities

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Ukrainian SSR

Moldavian SSR

collective farms