Mikhail Gorbachev has died

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by thrown_22 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:11PM (#32657185)

And yet populations are collapsing in every former communist state.

I don't know what you call it when a country loses 10% of it's population, like Ukraine did, but decimation is the dictionary definition.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by iknowstuff on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:34PM (#32657336)

Uh you might want to re-read that definition.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by d0mine on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:44PM (#32658136)

"the killing of one in every ten of a group of people as a punishment for the whole group (originally with reference to a mutinous Roman legion)."

10% is "one in every ten"

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by unmole on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:49PM (#32658168)

decimation /dɛsɪˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/

(noun)

the killing of one in every ten of a group of people as a punishment for the whole group (originally with reference to a mutinous Roman legion).

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