Where did you come up with 69 million for Stalin?
The “Black Book of Communism” only “credits” him with 20 million.
The “Black Book of Communism” only “credits” him with 20 million.
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Book is way way wrong - During the Purge in the 30s he had the NKVD take out millions living outside of the USSR in Europe.
Murdered by Stalin: 1917-1987 = 61,911,000. There are other accounts that go to 69 million. But that book is trying to make it look like Hitler was a nice guy. Wrong. He was a piker in the murder game.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn estimated total deaths under Stalin could be as high as 60 million. The majority died in prison camps, not counting the 6 million that Khrushchev starved to death in the Ukraine.
There is a wholesale attempt to mitigate Stalin’s murders and redeem the USSR by modern socialists so that socialism does not look so bad.