Iaryna Mytsyk remembered that families who had always left their houses open, even during the years of revolution and civil war, now locked their doors: “Centuries-old sincerity and generosity did not exist any more. It disappeared with hungry stomachs.”34 Parents warned their children to beware of neighbours whom they had known all their lives: no one knew who might turn out to be a thief, a spy—or a cannibal. No one wanted others to learn how they had survived either. “Trust disappeared,” wrote Mariia Doronenko: “Anyone who got hold of food, or who discovered a means of obtaining food, kept
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