this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What people who lived in the Soviet union and other socialist states have to say:

This study shows that unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths. The first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Shhh we only believe facts that back up what we were told to think