With respect to what reference class? taw took "falls of empires" and dismisses 100k casualties out of half a billion people (half a billion? [1]) as tantamount to "never happened". I took "the state of things before the USSR went away" and rate 100k casualties and 2M refugees out of the population in the region where this happened as "going to hell in a handbasket".

But if you look at anything from far enough away, you won't see it.

[1] Half a billion in Eastern Europe? Eastern Europe here means that part of Europe which was under the control of the USSR. Estimating this to be all the non-EU European countries, plus all former subject states of the USSR that joined the EU since 1989, minus Switzerland, I get less than 200M (source: various Wikipedia pages). Adding Ukraine (which I don't classify as part of Europe, though some might; certainly nowhere farther east counts) gets another 45M. Maybe taw is including the entire population of the USSR and its subject states in his reference class for "where this happened"?