[robowombat]

More than just loses in the two world wars. The Civil War and attendant famines and epidemics accounted for another 10M, then the forced collectivization of agriculture and the ‘Liquidation of the Kulaks as a Class produced at least 6 M more then the purge culture racked up untold millions. The purge of the CPUSSR alone accounted for over a million executions, and these were from the sort of educated elites and the purge of the armed forces added at least 750K more, again hitting trained and educated technical elites the hardest (it was June 1943 before the number of commissioned officers in the Red Army killed in the war with Germany exceeded the number executed in the 37-38 military purge. )The Soviets were the deadliest enemy the Russian people ever faced.

[FreedomPoster]

Rummel estimated around 60 millions murdered by the Soviets.

http://hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE4.HTM

[Bookshelf]

There is the Third World, and then there is the Fourth World: Russia.