Cannibal Island Survival Plan

100 km Alexandrovskoye Nazino Island Narym Tomsk Oblast Tomsk Novosibirsk USSR Nazino River Vasjugan Swamp Ket River Chulym River Trans-Siberian Railway >Be Russian politician in 1933 >Decide to settle uninhabited Siberia with "undesirables" >Be Russian soldier >Told to round up all of the homeless, criminal, and drug addicts in Ukraine >That sounds very difficult >Arrest 6700 completely random people on the street, some of whom might be homeless, who knows >Deport them to a deserted frozen island in Siberia >Tell them to build a city on the island using no tools or food >Surrounded the lake with guards to make sure they can't escape >One guy actually escapes and finds local peasants, asks them where Moscow is, the area is so remote that they've never even heard of the city >13 weeks pass >4000 dead, survivors make it by eating the corpses >Someone important in the government says to cancel the program and bring the survivors back >All evidence and mention of Cannibal Island is squashed >The end

A 4chan-style greentext recounts the horrific Nazino tragedy, where Soviet authorities deported thousands of people to a remote Siberian island without food or tools. The punchline is the bleak escalation from an absurd bureaucratic plan to mass death and cannibalism, followed by a cover-up; it is used as a dark reaction to disastrously cruel or incompetent government decisions.

• @deenya_md / 8147 2024-05-09