It seems hardly worth noting that dictatorship and war are harmful to health. Over 20 million died of starvation in Mao’s Great Leap Forward; untold millions died under Lenin, Stalin and Hitler; Pol Pot murdered two million Cambodians. Accurate body counts from the cruel regimes presiding over Burma, Afghanistan and the Congo remain unavailable but are certainly huge.
It seems hardly worth noting that dictatorship and war are harmful to health. Over 20 million died of starvation in Mao’s Great Leap Forward; untold millions died under Lenin, Stalin and Hitler; Pol Pot murdered two million Cambodians. Accurate body counts from the cruel regimes presiding over Burma, Afghanistan and the Congo remain unavailable but are certainly huge.