Back in the mid 60s while in Edmonton Alberta, it was 1966 actually because my sister was just 1 year old, we were watching a local televisions program, all White Ukrainian Slavs, and one of the guests was an aged farmer who suffered and survived the 1st HOLODOMOR under Lenin and Trotsky. He said that for 6months his family survived on nothing but honey, rainwater and sometimes cow blood, he said that even when the CHKA found the honey they didn't know what it was because they were focused on grains, tubers and meat. He also said that every 2nd week or so his father would stray out at night under the threat of death for himself and the "oldest son of the family" and sneak into the holds of confiscated cattle and prick a vein in the cows neck collecting a jar of blood...the prick point was then packed with mud concealing the wound and nobody knew anything, not even the cow would know....the blood was then fried into a blood omelet. I remember that guy being somewhere in his 50's and he looked healthy and fit...but honey is a life saver. FYI...honey will protect an open wound from infection also after being smeared over the gash after bleeding has been suppressed.
I never realized the significance of all the stories I heard as a kid, my brother included, I wish I could go back knowing what it was that I was listening to.
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