[ETL]

Most of what Russians have suffered throughout their history has been self-inflicted.

"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism's crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100711090651/http://article.nationalreview.com/365528/forgetting-the-evils-of-communism/jonah-goldberg
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"The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'," Putin said in 2005.

"Putin said Stalin deserves statues in his honor"

[jmacusa]

Thanks I'll check it out. The Russians claim to have lost 20 million in WW2. Add to that the millions who died from 1900 under various Czarist pogroms, to the millions who were killed during WW1, the millions more during the Revolution, the subsequent Civil War after and the millions during Stalin's Terror and the Ukrainian famine and the figures are just incredible.