The left has salted the internet and fringe conspiracy media with the claim that 12 million Americans starved to death, it’s roots are probably in a misinformation campaign from the old Soviet Union.
The American population grew by 9 million in the decade of 1930 to 1940.
Close enough.
From Pravda in 2008: Famine killed 7 million people in USA
It doesn't seem to be so much an old Soviet Union play as a "New" Russia play to excuse the Ukrainian Holodomor at the same time with a tu quoque argument.
From Wikipedia article on Holodomor Denial
In 2008, Russia Today published an article by Russian historian Boris Borisov in which he argued that the condemnation of the Holodomor by the U.S. House of Representatives was unjustified, that the number of victims were exaggerated by sloppy analytical methods and that the accusations of intentional causation of the famine were politically motivated and not based on fact. He argued that if the same methods used by researchers of Holodomor were applied to the Great Depression, it would lead to the conclusion of "seven to eight millions of American victims of the man-made catastrophe" in the same post-1929 era. The article further compared the policies of presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt with the policies of Stalin and the New Deal Public Works Administration with the communist Gulag.