An upwards of 8.5 million people died as a result of collectivization in the postrevolutionary Soviet Union. Keep in mind that this was peacetime, and these were indiginous peoples.
I obviously had no idea of the cost of the rise of communism in Eastern Europe. I had only heard horror stories of the people who suffered through the dictatorships in Albania and Romania in the seventies and eighties.
So, um, yay research.
By the by, the anti-smoking commercial where the chick goes around licking disgusting things like a garbage can and a flyswatter is funny. She really seems to dig it.
I obviously had no idea of the cost of the rise of communism in Eastern Europe. I had only heard horror stories of the people who suffered through the dictatorships in Albania and Romania in the seventies and eighties.
So, um, yay research.
By the by, the anti-smoking commercial where the chick goes around licking disgusting things like a garbage can and a flyswatter is funny. She really seems to dig it.