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> Well, I stand corrected; the only cases of human-induced *mass starvation* 
> occurred in nations claiming to follow some form of Marxism.

See the British blockade of Germany in WW1
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/spotlights/blockade.htm

Another example would be the mass starvation in North Vietnam in 1945 (1 
million dead), caused by a combination of bad rice harvest, widespread food 
pillaging by the Japanese occupation forces and the US blockade.

G.

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