[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I have been able to find only one source for the figure of seven million, from a Russian writing in Pravda, who used obviously ridiculous methodology to come up with this figure. he took an estimate made in 1930 of the number of citizens they projected to be alive in 1940, then subtracted the number of Americans reported in the 1940 census. He attributed almost the entire difference to deaths by starvation!! Entirely ignored was the fact that folks during the Depression had far fewer children than in the Roaring 20’s. This decade of childbirths is famously known as the ‘birth dearth’, with the lowest birth rate before the 1960’s.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Pravda. Imagine that. ;-)