Oldfart,

Yes sir. That is true.

For example, in 1932 between 3 and 10 million peasants of the Ukraine, then one of the republics of the USSR, were starved to death as part of Joseph Stalin's programme to crush the resistance to the collectivisation of farming - an axiom of Marxist theory. They are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the famine this year.

There are examples from other "disciplines".

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