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by badpun 2398 days ago
> infant mortality, famine and then WW2

Don't forget the Stallinist terror (innocent people dying in concentration camps).

EDIT: why the downvote? Wikipedia estimate for the victims of The Purge is at 600k-1.2m level (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge), certainly enough to make a dent in the stats.