It was Stalin who said, a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is only a statistic. He was interrupting an official lamenting the loss of lives in the Holodomor, the famine he created in the Ukraine, while collectivising agriculture and industrialising the Soviet Union. He devastated the Ukraine, the Soviet Union’s ‘bread bowl’, by confiscating all its crops to feed factory workers.
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