Because the number is irrelevant. The individual doesn't matter. All that matters is the good of the State. Just ask our President.
Or “one death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a statistic.” It’s “New Soviet Man,” a faceless cog in a machine; an ant in an anthill. In reality, “New Soviet Man” was a drunken wife beater who didn’t give a damn about his job or anything else. A state that in effect said “the beatings will continue till morale improves” wasn’t going to get more than that.
It is exactly what we’re turning into. It’s what communism does to people. I don’t beat Mrs. henkster (she is a saint, and anwyay she’d kick my ass) but it’s hard to not become the other things anymore.
The life of the average Russian working stiff pretty much sucked from the time of the Mongols through the Soviets. Don’t know much about the modern era but their population and mortality stats aren’t good.