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The average male lifespan in Russia in the 90s was 58. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116380/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11163
by scottlocklin 7y ago
The average male lifespan in Russia in the 90s was 58.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116380/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC259165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC259165/
The economic policies Harvard (and to be fair, the Clinton administration, whose fixers put Yeltzin in power in 96 -talk of interfering in elections: overt, boasted about even, and gone down the memory hole) inflicted on Russia in the 90s literally killed millions of Russians.
So, yes, "basically genocide" is an appropriate choice of words.