[dsc]

Four million? That number just keeps getting smaller and smaller.

[laplata]

Four million? That number just keeps getting smaller and smaller.

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It certainly does.

Stalin was as evil as Hitler.

[FreedomPoster]

Noted Democide (murder by government) historian Professor Rudolph Rummel of the University of Hawaii puts the numbers for the Ukrainian famine (aka the Holodomor) in the range of 3 to 10 million dead, with 5 million being the likely number.

See this table: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/USSR.TAB4A.GIF

20th Century Democide page: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

So you’re right. 4 million is a 20% reduction from the estimates of the most widely available authoritative source.