Yes it did. And millions more were murdered under Stalin. I am always in awe that Christ still chose to step down from the perfection of Heaven and come to this lowly place. Thankfully for us HE did.
Jesus suffered the (pardon the term) unspeakable penalty of that day so that the price of evil might be paid and the burden we cannot bear be borne. (It really was unspeakable. There is no literal word for cross employed in the N.T. Greek. The term used is the euphemism “tree.”)