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Re:The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Fa... by baursak on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:20PM (#16417148)
> For the tens of millions who it intentionally starved to death, worked to death in the gulag, or just summarily murdered

Tens of millions? Intentionally starved? Citations needed, to say the least.

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Re:The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Fa... by lootsauce on Monday February 19, 2018 @09:10PM (#16417321)
Fair enough, combined all purposive deaths, though hotly debated, per wikipedia under Stalin alone the number ranges from 8 to 61 million. So my tens of millions in that context is not out of line though safer to say millions. Either way its abhorrent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...

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