> The despair and famines caused by Stalin, Hitler, Mao all caused far more deaths. That's true, but if you take the demographic residue, the fall of the USSR

> The despair and famines caused by Stalin, Hitler, Mao all caused far more deaths. That's true, but if you take the demographic residue, the fall of the USSR is the only time, safe for the worst year of the stalinist purges, to make it dive into the negatives : https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/burckina_faso/26952019/74305/74305_original.jpg https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/burckina_faso/26952019/74305... It's hard to visualize how big of an impact it had on Russian society as a whole.