>"Deficit" literally means "lack of something", and hunger is definitely a lack of food. Sure. Yet, being a Russian myself also familiar with the history, I ca

>"Deficit" literally means "lack of something", and hunger is definitely a lack of food. Sure. Yet, being a Russian myself also familiar with the history, I cannot recall people using that word to describe "hunger". In Russian of 1970s-1980s the word "deficit" was used to refer to the goods not a lack of them, see this example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKWQ2UxXSLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKWQ2UxXSLY As for you remarks about RI's economy - I am not sure what you mean. In your own link there is no reference of an economy-related famine. Famines used to be caused by weather and wars all around the world.