Poverty is the natural state of mankind. How many more millions would exist in dire misery were it not for the development of wealth creation in the West. You

Poverty is the natural state of mankind. How many more millions would exist in dire misery were it not for the development of wealth creation in the West. You might want to look at Robert Conquest's The Great Terror - "Exact numbers may never be known with complete certainty, but the total of deaths caused by the whole range of Soviet regime's terrors can hardly be lower than some fifteen million."