A new book on cannibalism in the 1921 Russian famine

Re:A new book on cannibalism in the 1921 Russian famine by sharpneli on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:13PM (#21446573)

While that is techically correct, the best kind of correct, it is bit misleading not to mention that it was Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that existed for some years during the Russian civil war and formed the Soviet Union in 1922.

For all intents and purposes it is the same political entity.

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Re:A new book on cannibalism in the 1921 Russian famine by dragonwriter on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:21PM (#21446639)

For a simple (but imperfect, as all are) analogy that should be familiar to HNers, the pre-USSR RSFSR is like the pre-Alphabet Google, the USSR-era RSFSR is like the Alphabet-era Google, and the USSR is to the RSFSR as Alphabet is to Google.

And “Soviet” as an adjective describes organs of the RSFSR, those of any of the other soviet republics that came to constitute the USSR, or of the USSR itself.

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