The Nazino tragedy (Russian: Назинская трагедия, romanized: Nazinskaya tragediya) was the mass murder and mass deportation of around 6,700 prisoners to Nazino Island,[1] located on the Ob River in West Siberian Krai, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Tomsk Oblast, Russia), in May 1933. Sent to construct a "special settlement" and to cultivate the island, the deportees were abandoned with only scant supplies of flour for food, little to no tools, and virtually none of the clothing or shelter necessary to survive the harsh Siberian climate. Conditions on Nazino Island deteriorated quickly and resulted in widespread disease, violence, and cannibalism. Within 13 weeks, over 4,000 of the deportees had died or disappeared, and the majority of the survivors were in ill health.[2][3] Those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.[2][4]
The original report on the incident was made by Vasily A. Velichko, a Soviet propaganda worker, and passed to Joseph Stalin and to other members of the Politburo. The report remained classified until the human rights organisation Memorial conducted an investigation in 1988, five decades after the events.[1][5] The tragedy was popularized in 2002, when reports from a September 1933 special commission by the Communist Party were published by Memorial.[6][7]
^ abVelichko 1933
^ abWerth 2007, pp. xviii, 181
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^Franchetti, Mark (8 April 2007). "The cannibal hell of Stalin's prison island". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
^Filimonov, Andrei; Coalson, Robert (5 July 2018). "Cannibal Island: In 1933, Nearly 5,000 Died In One Of Stalin's Most Horrific Labor Camps". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
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