The economic policies Harvard (and to be fair, the Clinton administration, whose fixers put Yeltzin in power in 96 -talk of interfering in elections: overt, boasted about even, and gone down the memory hole) inflicted on Russia in the 90s literally killed millions of Russians.
So, yes, "basically genocide" is an appropriate choice of words.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC259165/
The economic policies Harvard (and to be fair, the Clinton administration, whose fixers put Yeltzin in power in 96 -talk of interfering in elections: overt, boasted about even, and gone down the memory hole) inflicted on Russia in the 90s literally killed millions of Russians.
So, yes, "basically genocide" is an appropriate choice of words.