I know there was one in the USSR in 1932 and one in the PRC in 1958. I know that they’re a major talking point of the “communism killed 100 million people” myth. I’d like to be able to understand them better and extract valid criticisms out of them so I don’t end up looking ignorant or sycophantic while trying to explain why I support communist countries.

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[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternatively, and not to take away from your post, but why can I not find any information about the death toll of the Great Depression?

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Not an expert, but, apparently the Great Depression, in the US at least, didn't really directly kill that many people. The US had (has?) a pretty robust agricultural industry that meant that even with so many people driven into poverty most people could still access enough food to at least stay alive.

It still probably killed people, less access to medical care, living in less sanitary housing and massive unplanned migration definitely caused some deaths but there wasn't really any huge famine like event. People just got poor as shit.