Starvation

The following poster is from the Fall 2009 issue of the HOOVER DIGEST. The Digest reports the folowing:

A Soviet poster from 1931 presents a busy harvest scene, watched by spiteful counterrevolutionaries and foreign invaders. "Bread is our strength," it reads. "A grave for invaders. Gather the harvest." Sheaves become weapons that wound a rich peasant, a priest,a capitalist, and a czarist. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, like this poster, was intimately acquainted with using food as a weapon: at the time this exhortation was printed, collectivization was causing widespread famine and would kill millions of people.