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		skinnymuch 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China is eating the world They obviously meant famines in the location that is being discussed. Why would they be talking about worldwide famines? How would a famine in South America be relevant to the Soviets?

hkpack 3 months ago [–]

The famine of the 19xx scale is the “world-grade” event.

There were just few of such magnitude in the entire world in all of our knowledge.

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