Fund No. P-470. op. 2, file 2. Information, reports on cases of cannibalism in the villages of Odesa region, on the exhaustion of workers at enterprises in the city of Kherson. 02.03.1933 – 28.10.1933, №20, 2013
On the night of February 28, 1933, in the village of Leontovichevo, in the family of Vasilenko, expelled from the TKZS (Labor Cooperative farm) for stealing bread during the harvest and sentenced to 10 years in prison, there was a case where a 15- year-old boy strangled a 4-year-old child.
After strangling the child, he woke up the other children, aged 12, 8 and 6, and invited them to cut him up for consumption.As the younger children were frightened by his proposal, he immediately took an axe and chopped the child to pieces, laid him in bed and salted him.In the process, he took out the heart, liver and lungs, fried them and fed the rest of the children.