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Communism and cannibalism (view source)
Revision as of 15:24, August 9, 2016
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But the disreputable uses to which the argument has been put—normalizing Hitler by focusing on Stalin's crimes—should not blind us to the magnitude and consequences of those crimes.<ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2011/02/stalins_cannibals.html Stalin's Cannibals], ''Slate''</ref>}}
But the disreputable uses to which the argument has been put—normalizing Hitler by focusing on Stalin's crimes—should not blind us to the magnitude and consequences of those crimes.<ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2011/02/stalins_cannibals.html Stalin's Cannibals], ''Slate''</ref>}}
== North Korea and cannibalism ==
[[North Korea]] has [[state atheism]] and public religion is actively discouraged.<ref>Elizabeth Raum. ''North Korea''. Series: ''Countries Around the World''. Heinemann, 2012. ISBN 1432961330. p. 28</ref>
The ''Express'' reports:
{{Cquote|A North Korean man living in Australia has claimed that human flesh is served up to eat in the country’s third largest city.
Sung Min Jeong, 44, claims that in Chongjin – a city at the tip of the North Korean coast – a shopkeeper serves up human meat.
Fears that famine-stricken North Koreans are being forced to eat human flesh heightened earlier this year following claims a man was executed for murdering his two children for food.
Fears of cannibalism in the country surfaced in 2003 too, amid testimony from refugees who claimed poor harvests and food aid sanctions had resulted in children being killed and corpses cut up for food.
According to reports, requests by the [[United Nations]] World Food Programme to access "farmers' markets" where human meat was said to be traded, were turned down by Pyongyang, citing "security reasons".
Those caught selling human meat face execution, but one source told the North Korean Refugees Assistance Fund: "Pieces of 'special' meat are displayed on straw mats for sale.
"People know where they come from, but they don't talk about it."<ref>[http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/392610/North-Korean-reveals-cannibalism-is-common-after-escaping-starving-state North Korean reveals cannibalism is common after escaping starving state], Express</ref>}}
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