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Rahn was the husband of [[Peggy Noonan]], one of the [[Essay:Top conservatives on Twitter|Top Conservatives on Twitter]] that I located, vouching for the provenance of the information.

Rahn was the husband of [[Peggy Noonan]], one of the [[Essay:Top conservatives on Twitter|Top Conservatives on Twitter]] that I located, vouching for the provenance of the information.

Actually, this had been determined ten years prior as quoted by a Russian university organization<ref>Dyadkin, Iosef G. (1983). ''Demograficheskaya statistika neyestestvennoy smertnosti v SSSR'' [''Unnatural Deaths in the U.S.S.R.: 1928-1954''] transl. Tania Deruguine (Piscataway NJ: Transaction Publishers [Rutgers University])</ref> reported 56 to 62 million "unnatural deaths" for the USSR overall, with 34 to 49 million under Stalin.</ref>

Actually, this had been determined ten years prior as quoted by a Russian university organization<ref>Dyadkin, Iosef G. (1983). ''Demograficheskaya statistika neyestestvennoy smertnosti v SSSR'' [''Unnatural Deaths in the U.S.S.R.: 1928-1954''] transl. Tania Deruguine (Piscataway NJ: Transaction Publishers [Rutgers University])</ref> reported 56 to 62 million "unnatural deaths" for the USSR overall, with 34 to 49 million under Stalin.

This university organization republished this account in 1993 and may have been the very book mentioned by Richard Rahn.  It may have been misquoted in a ''Pravda'' article—if ''Pravda'' published it at all and was the mode of transmission—and picked up by Rahn or misunderstood by Rahn.  In 1993 this may have been the first official acknowledgement by Moscow of these figures or the first time ''Pravda'' had reported them.

This university organization republished this account in 1993 and may have been the very book mentioned by Richard Rahn.  It may have been misquoted in a ''Pravda'' article—if ''Pravda'' published it at all and was the mode of transmission—and picked up by Rahn or misunderstood by Rahn.  In 1993 this may have been the first official acknowledgement by Moscow of these figures or the first time ''Pravda'' had reported them.

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