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Originally Posted by Macindoc
Inflation of statistics is the Russian national pastime. I mean, the total population of Ukraine and the entire armament of NATO have been destroyed multiple times over, according to government sources.
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It's a very old pastime, too.
Stalin once had the entire committee of commissars for the Russian census shot because they stated that the population of Russia was what it was, and not what Stalin wished it to be. They were formally charged with ‘conspiring to diminish the population of the Soviet Union’. After they were shot, Stalin personally edited the figures before allowing the census to be published.