There is a catch phrase: "When one person dies, this is a tragedy, and when millions die, it becomes a statistics". The phrase is attributed to Stalin, which annoys the Stalinists, who come out with denials. It does not matter who said it, because behind the phrase there is a real psychological phenomenon: to paraphrase, we say that the statistical information about the grief (or joy) of millions is not as effective in consciousness as the story...

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