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Russia has far more blood on its hands than the US, starting with almost 6 million in Ukraine alone.
That is objectively false, but you keep on doing you.
You're right, it's up to 7 million dead in the Holodomor.
Perhaps, educate yourself on what actual historians have to say on the subject.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2500600
During the 1932 Holodomor Famine, the USSR sent aid to affected regions in an attempt to alleviate the famine. According to Mark Tauger in his article, The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933:
Some bring up massive grain exports during the famine to show that the Soviet Union exported food while Ukraine starved. This is fallacious for a number of reasons, but most importantly of all the amount of aid that was sent to Ukraine alone actually exceeded the amount that was exported at the time.
According to Tauger, the reason why more aid was not provided was because of the low harvest
Tauger is not a communist, and ultimately this specific article takes the view that the low harvest was caused by collectivization (he factors in the natural causes of the famine in later articles, based on how he completely neglects to mention weather in this article at all its clear that his position shifted over the years). However, the fact is that the Soviets really did try to alleviate the famine as best as they could.
On the other hand, we can look at what an actual intentional genocide looks like where Europeans massacred so many indigenous people in North America that it changed the climate!
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article225350745.html
Not to mention such hits as the Irish and Bengal famines.