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by y0ssar1an 1179 days ago
lol Stalin killed 20 million people through direct executions, the Gulag, and famine, but how bout those yummy nutrients?!

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

I'm sure the millions of Ukrainians who were forcibly starved during the Holodomor really appreciated the low calorie diets supplied by the USSR.

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

Characterizing the forcible starvation of millions as "a period of food insecurity" is peak techie-communism for me. Thanks for the laugh! :)