Now unlike Alive and the Donner party examples, it would appear that the acts of cannibalism here on the tiny island of Nazino, nicknamed Cannibal Island or Death Island, were much more brutal and atrocious. So a little background. In the early 1930s, the Soviet Union enacted a policy under Joseph Stalin called de-kukuligazation. Now a kulak was basically a successful farmer that were kicked off their farms due to the new policies that the communists implemented where farms were confiscated and turned into state collectives. In the early 1930s, Stalin saw this program as a success where nearly 2 million kulaks were relocated to Siberia and began to modernize it and turn it into a valuable resource for the nation. Now in February of 1933, the heads of the secret police and the gulag labor camps proposed a repeat of the program, planning to resettle another 2 million settlers to modernize nearly 4,000 square miles of virgin land. But there's one problem.