[Mr. K]

I wonder how many people felt this way when Russia was taken over by the commies?

I don’t have enough history to know if things were bad under the Czar but did he starve 30 million people to death? (or was it 45)

[sodpoodle]

****I wonder how many people felt this way when Russia was taken over by the commies?****

From the article:

“several career lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of political reprisals”

Does that answer your question Mr. K?

[snowsislander]

I don’t have enough history to know if things were bad under the Czar but did he starve 30 million people to death? (or was it 45)

None of the Czars killed as many people in as short of a period of time as the Communists did in the Ukraine in the 1930s.

However, even ordinary life under the Czars was very bad: most people were serfs or slaves until 1861, and there was no freedom of movement for these people.

After the "emancipation" in 1861 when many of these people were able to acquire land, however, they were subjected to making enormous annual payments for that land, and many (probably most) of the peasants didn't receive plots big enough to make a living.