Crimea, Tatars, and Other Issues

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The better half worked with an old man who survived the Holodomor.  The only reason he, his mother, and sibling survived was because the mother had a bottle of glue (made of horse) and the cadres never figured out they were making a broth with it every night.  Each day, the head of the kolhosp would come into their home and say, more to himself than them, "Why aren't you dead yet?"

Spouse tells about one of her grandparents west of Kyiv during Holodomor.

Family had bees.  Authorities took everything except the honey and onions.  Many days they lived on onions dipped in honey.

They also heard the comments:  Why aren't you dead yet ?