Privatization Killed a Million People in Eastern Europe

An Oxford study, published in The Lancet, shows that nearly one million working-aged men and women died in Eastern Europe due to the sudden transition from nation-owned businesses to the private sectors in the years following the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union. Countries that were ... [ read more >> ]

Eastern Europe, pictured in red, and other regions formerly attached to the Soviet Union lost more than 1 million men and women in the early 1990s

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Eastern Europe, pictured in red, and other regions formerly attached to the Soviet Union lost more than 1 million men and women in the early 1990s