Carol Christian West

The Year They Ate Horse Carol Christian West

It was 1932-33. e Russian Premier Joseph Stalin kept something he caused to happen that year a secret. He bribed reporters to speak of the "blossoming of the Ukraine." He provided these reporters with the best food, the nest living quarters and companions. So they only reported good news that they invented. Whereas, when a boy returned home from his uncle's house in Kharkiv, the city, to his home on a farm in the Ukraine, he found devastation. Now he saw people dying, their grain taken for taxes, his whole village of Podolsk suffering. e boy, Taras, and his sister, Luda, devise a plan. ey and their horse, Viktor, face unbelievable danger.