The Black Book of Communism lays out the death toll in excrutiating detail. You should really get a copy.
It’s authored by a group of French Socialists who were given access to the old Soviet Archives during the Yeltsin era. What they found is damning. Not just of the various Communist countries but also various left wing movements in the West that really did act as the Communists agents.
I found my copy secreted away behind other books in a Borders. The walk up kiosk said there were three copies in the store but I couldn’t find them. One of the clerks told me the system was wrong. I kept looking until I noticed that a bunch of paperbacks in the section were pushed out pretty far on the shelf. I pulled them out and sure enough, the three “missing” copies were hidden behind them.
Correctly shelving the two other copies I took mine to the checkout and got a very nasty glare from the clerk. Went back a couple days later and, sure enough, the other two copies were hidden away in the same location again.
Thanks. I posted a link to the Amazon offering on my FB page in honor of May Day.