TL DR An Amerikkkan liberal sent me this meme after I sent him an awesome marxist meme that made him SEETHE. He coped by sending me this poop.

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  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    The 1990s in the former USSR is probably second to only the bubonic plague in terms of decreased quality of life and life expectancy during peacetime.

    Shock therapy contributed to something like five million excess deaths.

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      6 months ago

      In Russia between 1990 and 1994 male life expectancy at birth dropped from 63.8 to 57.6 years. Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltics experienced a similar decline. Suicides accounted for 16% of that decrease. Good times.

      https://docs.iza.org/dp243.pdf