Yet when he returned only a few hours later, he found his new love strapped to a tree, her breasts sliced off and portions of her thighs removed as a group of men roasted her flesh over an open fire. And even worse, she was still alive. Now the guard attempted to save her, but she had simply lost too much blood. By the end of May, guards had arrested 50 gang members for cannibalism. And the episode finally came to an end in July of that summer, mainly due to a local communist propaganda reporter who personally sent a message to Stalin informing him of the atrocities that were going on at Nazino. Now while there were guards that were arrested, and Stalin took immediate steps to end the situation, it was also immediately covered up. And it wasn't really until the fall of the Soviet Union where information became available about the Nazino tragedy and we kind of found out what happened.