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Reducing widespread human rights abuses in the Soviet Union to "one famine" shows a heady mixture of deliberate ignorance with hubris that only a western university educated leftist can posess.
The ussr was infinitely better for human rights than what came before or after in Russia and the baltics, and was better than all "free nations" at the time until the late 1970s, when a few European nations decided to ignore France, the UK, and the US and write their own laws.
Life expectancy doubled under Stalin.
So he could see them suffer longer.
Anti-communists continue to be deeply unserious people, my God.