Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration fed nearly 11 million starving Russians a day after the Bolsheviks’ War Communism had already killed 5 million in the Volga famine.

Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration fed nearly 11 million starving Russians a day after the Bolsheviks’ War Communism had already killed 5 million in the Volga famine.

From 1918, the regime ran forced grain seizures that took the peasants’ entire surplus and the seed… pic.twitter.com/HenIXrtStE

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