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ROFL! Look, I know that toilet paper isn't a very big deal -- as a 10-year-old, I went on two-week Boy Scout campouts in rural Turkey (it was a joint American/Turkish scouting program); I was also in...

I don't know what the current "toilet-paper standards" are in major Russian cities.

I do recall very well from the early 1990s, however, that:

(1) Public restrooms quite often had no toilet...

Which might have been okay if it had turned out that the collectivized farms would be Ultra-Efficient and Super-Duper-Productive (which was, of course, the Communist Party's prediction) and therefore...

Well, actually, a bit earlier than that. Welsh journalist Gareth Jones was able to visit Ukraine in 1933, and after returning to the West, he published the following on 29 March:



This very...

I don't know what the "true" figure is, but for JUST the Ukrainian S.S.R. victims during the first "Five-Year-Plan" (1928-1933), I've seen estimated death tolls ranging from 5 million (a number...