archive materials show a significant number of criminal cases were based on factual evidence.” ............................... i.e. calling Stalin and idiot, reading the Saturday evening post, listening to the BBC and radio Berlin, talking to US citizens who volunteered to help the Soviets and find work for themselves. Yeah, there were millions of guilty people sent to work in labor camps for a bowl of potato soup and a piece of bread if the reached their quota. No work, no eat, no live. Left as frozen meat in the frozen tundra. Many died from deceases of the mind which left holes in their skulls. The only difference between the Soviets and the Nazis was they destroyed all their records, leaving many questions unanswered, and NO REPARATIONS for any of the victims or their families. Life was always tough for the everyday Russian. I guess they miss all that?
Within the first year of governing the Bolshevik’s executed more people then 300 years of Romanov’s.