 Memorial for Starved Children Kiev, Ukraine © Jennifer Boyer with CCLicense Stupidity Street I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For the people to eat. I saw in a vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street. |
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the poem I believe I’ve heard but that statue! Speaks volumes…how did you ever find out about it? Have you been to the Ukraine?
I found it by doing a creative commons image search for starvation and I was so haunted by it… the eyes, the gauntness and the little tare of wheat. Amazing statue, isn’t it? It memorializes children who died as a direct result of government policies. Those ethnicities who were not considered worthy of survival were starved to death. Such a sad place.