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does this distinguish deaths that happened because of the model and under the model?
if you die of old age under a communist goverment, it cannot be seen as a death caused by communism. it works the other way around.
seen from that perspective, its only logical capitalism would have a higher count because more countries with more people have been capitalists for longer than communism has even existed.
the holodomor for example can only be explained as deaths that happened because of communism, not just under it.
this also creates problems in which deaths can be put into both. are the dead on vietnam capitalism's fault or communism?