frozen lifeless bodies scattered on the street horrifying facial expressions petrified in the ice people suffering from malnutrition reality of war leaves them nothing some would collect them to take them home to hack up cook and eat them hastily dragging the carrion so stiff and cold to their houses to prepare the morbid feast in desperate attempts to bite off chunks from the body weakened teeth would break from icy solidity putting heat to the carcass to make flesh tender thawing body fluids revealing a stench sense numbing biting into half frozen meat trying to ignore the horrid taste hunger over revulsion willpower tested wretched corpses lying in the snow over a period of two weeks one by one they disappear unquestioned