In the 20th century, 70 million people starved to death in massive famines. Eighty percent of these were victims of forced collectivization by communist regimes, punitive confiscation, and totalitarian centralized planning through five-year plans. These include, among others, the famine after the October Revolution in the USSR, Stalin’s Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-33, Mao’s Great Leap Forward of 1958-61, Pol Pot’s Year Zero of 1975-79, and Kim Jong-il’s regime in the late 1990s.
