Impact of the Holodmor in the cities
border blockades, coupled with policies already in place restricting peasants’ ability to travel to urban centers and their expulsion therefrom, amounted to forcing rural residents to return to their villages, where their death from starvation was more likely. Limited supplies of food were available in the larger cities, for the Soviet state had instituted a system of rationing that guaranteed most urban residents’ and factory workers’ access to food. There were also co-called commercial stores in the cities where limited amounts of bread and other food could be purchased. Nonetheless not all urban residents in of Soviet Ukraine had adequate rations and some were not eligible to receive ration cards, so a si
