Leningrad (modern-day Saint Petersburg) witnessed an awful humanitarian plight during the WWII. The people in the city starved, ate cats, sawdust, wallpaper paste, and even their own families.
The siege went on for 900 days, as Nazis set out to starve them into submission.
And we still hear that the back side of humans is a delicacy in some parts of the Far East.
Yeah, there are many cases like that and one of the most horrible ones happened during The Siege of Leningrad.
Leningrad, which was under German siege, witnessed probably the most terrible side of the war. Hundreds of thousands died.
Some people went as far as murdering and eating other people to survive under the siege.
A husband who fed his kids and others by killing his wife...
Where humanity was put through an impossible test...
They initially decided to kill everyone who got involved in cannibalism.
So they divided them into two groups: cannibals who murdered, and cannibals who ate already dead bodies.
And others were sent to prison, but some of them went on with cannibalism and committed murders in prison and ate other human beings.
They were also executed.
But if we still want to psychologically analyze cannibalism, we can look at the following events:
And actually, those who do this comfortably rise up in the hierarchy of the group.
Still, the same is observed in the cannibalism that we know to be a behavioral or mental disorder in our modern society.
Sigmund Freud had a theory on cannibals, about how they believe that they will also inherit the characteristics of the people they eat while they are consuming parts of their bodies.