In the history book, this event is better known as the Nazino tragedy, which took place over 13 weeks during the summer of 1933 in the Soviet Union. It seems tragedy is not enough of a word to convey what happened in that dreadful summer on a small island on the Ob River in western Siberia, in the Soviet Union, now Russia. But over those three months, nearly half of the 4,556 men and 322 women perished, many of them becoming a steady protein diet for the survivors. 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.