Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Except for human slaughter and maiming and all that goes with them, inflation is the most destructive of the consequences...
Bloodletting is nothing new to Odessa. During the Crimean War it was unsuccessfully attacked by the Franco-British Allies in 1854; later it was muffed by the Turks in the Russo-Turkish troubles of 1876-77. In an unforgettable silent film, Director Sergei Eisenstein recorded the Cossack slaughter and pogroms which followed the mutinied battleship's landing (1905) at Odessa's port. After the Bolshevik Revolution the city was in turn occupied by Austrian, German and French forces, and the monstrous General Simon Petlure (whose murderer a French jury in 1926 acquitted and fined one franc) also...
...Slaughter from 51,000,000 to 52,000,000 head of hogs, up 12% from 1941's expected hog slaughter of 46,000,000 head...
...Caucasian mountain bastions, could be strongly defended. And the fields could be fired, so that it would probably be two years before anything like full production could be restored. Moreover, Russia has needed almost all of her oil ever since she lost 15,000,000 horses by famine or slaughter (some to encourage, some in rebellion against collectivization), making tractor power essential. So if Hitler wants Russian food he must leave his captives much Russian...
...There is an acute food, feed and fuel shortage. Due to the slaughter of poultry, egg production this winter will be only one-third of last winter's. Wrote a farmer: "On many farms cows are too weak to rise and have to be lifted up." > Although the Nazis promised noninterference in Danish affairs, the Danish telephone exchanges, the railways and the police are controlled by the Gestapo...