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I suggest just [0] to scratch the surface of understanding that cause and effect of famines anywhere, but not less so in the USSR, is debated about people who donate their life to the study of this.

While you seem certain simply that they're caused by the absence of a free market (the latter is, in itself, a challengeable claim).

For which you provide zero sources again as well as not providing any sources for the even more outlandish claim that capitalism increased average height. Which was the actual reason I replied to you.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%...



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