Famines in Russia have been frequent, and that of 1921 is still fresh in the memory of everyone. When I was in China in I920, considerable portions of that country were suffering a famine quite as severe as the Russian famine of the following year, but the victims secured less sympathy than those of the Volga, because their misfortunes could not be attributed to Communism.
Source: Bertrand Russell :Marriage and Morals, 1929
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