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If you used the same metric to quantify the deaths during the Great Depression in the United States, you would end up with a death toll of 11 million
It was based off of a boots riley tweet that was posted here some months back. I'll go digging for it after I clock off work
https://hexbear.net/post/262581
This post right here, though I misremembered the number, it would have been 9 million dead theoretically