Continuous distillation column uses variation of temperature and pressure conditions along the height of the column to get more volatile component at the top of the column and less volatile component at the bottom of the column.
The event that caused the death of 14,000,000 Russians was the Russian Civil War. Explain the causes of Russia's Civil War and its outcome. The causes of Russia's Civil War were the failure of provisional government of Kerensky, the growing power of the soviets, the treaty of Brest-Litovsk angered Russians, and the Bolsheviks wanted to wipe out all their enemies. The outcome was the Bolshevik victory over the Whites and 14,000,000 dead.
Whether ordinary Russian factory hands ever talked like that seems doubtful, but certainly many Russians regarded the treaty as an abominable betrayal of their country. Brest-Litovsk had a role in provoking the civil war between the Whites and the Reds. So did the fact that the Left Socialist Revolutionaries withdrew from the government and left it entirely in the hands of the Bolsheviks, and some of them took the White side in the civil war. Meanwhile the Allied powers intervened.