And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from the world because to each moment clung a whole mass of mortal images. For five years the earth has not seen a single morning without death agonies, a single evening without prisons, a noon without slaughter.Albert Camus
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This quote is about the famine that occurred in Russia during the early 1900s. This amount of suffering and death was brought about by a severe drought and crop failure. The situation was so bad that the Russian government decided to shoot peasants who were starving and unable to feed their family.
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