The BBC’s analysis shows that 67% of the dead are from rural areas and small towns - classed as those with populations under 100,000 people - even though 48% of Russia’s population lives there.

The rate of losses was smallest in major cities, with Moscow having the least deaths per capita - five people for every 10,000 males, or 0.05%.

In poorer regions, such as Buryatia in eastern Siberia, and Tuva in southern Siberia, the death rate is 27 to 33 times higher respectively than in the capital.

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    I’d heard it stated before that the meat grinder is a fantastic approach for cleansing the poor / undesirable.

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      Except in the end the meat grinder always comes for you to and then you realize right before you die that in a culture that normalizes dehumanizing people as undesirable everyone in it must become undesirable sooner or later, usually sooner.