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How many famines do you think occured in China and Russia prior to communism? How many people do you think died because of famines in the decades prior to communism?

Famine in late 19th century/early 20th century China and Russia were a fact of life. They'd come ever few years, kill a few million, and then leave. That had been the case throughout history because subsistence farming isn't exactly a very robust system. How many famines do you think occured in the decades before the communist party took power?

How many famines would you guess occured in the decades after the communist party took power in Russia or China? What do you think the odds were that those famines would have occured with or without communist party intervention?