[akavel]

Are you trying to be ironic? You're aware that they (and numerous neighbour countries) ended up starving oppressed under communist dictatorship, as opposed to starving oppressed under Tsar's monarchy, yes?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD#NKVD_activities

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

etc, etc...