70 million people died after WW1, 1918 to 1922

Between 1918 and 1922, some 70 million people died after the end of WW1. 

Eastern Europe was locked in the even deadlier Russian Civil War, which killed 10 million people, mostly civilians, of which 5 million died in the 1921-1922 famine following massive devastation and the Bolsheviks’ *War Communism* policies. The Whites and right-wing nationalists slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews and Siberian peasants in pogroms. The Soviet Union, Poland, the Baltic Republics, and Finland were all born in blood.

The Middle East was ground zero for genocide and more bloodshed. The late Ottoman Empire ethnically cleansed over a million ethnic Greeks, Assyrians, and Armenian civilians. The Armenian Genocide was still in full swing by the end of WW1, and did not end until 1922 when Turkish soldiers deliberately burned down Smyrna. Besides the Greco-Turkish War, British troops also suppressed Iraqi nationalists with poison gas. Iran suffered from a major famine due to a three-way occupation, and over 2 million Iranians starved to death. 

The Spanish Flu killed roughly 50 million people worldwide. The vast majority of deaths were in the Global South, a third of which died in India. Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa also suffered extremely high death rates. The movement of massive armies, high levels of malnutrition, starvation, and famine after years of war and blockades by the Royal Navy made much of Europe vulnerable to the epidemic. 

And Central Europe was a bastion of chaos after the collapse of Austria-Hungary. There were Communist revolutions and a Romanian invasion of Hungary. The region’s ethnic tensions remained unresolved until they boiled over in World War Two. 300,000 Germans starved to death after 1918 as the Royal Navy maintained their blockade after the war’s end. 

20th century is probably the most brutal century in human history in terms of unnatural death toll tbh.

Most of that was because of the Spanish flu

Türks after ww1: alright people is time for a indepence war and some revolts after that