100 Million Killed By Communism

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The Black Book of Communism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bl...k_of_Communism

In the introduction, editor Stéphane Courtois states that "...Communist regimes... turned mass crime into a full-blown system of government".^[3] He claims that a death toll totals 94 million.^[4] The breakdown of the number of deaths given by Courtois is as follows:

• 65 million in the People's Republic of China
• 20 million in the Soviet Union
• 2 million in Cambodia
• 2 million in North Korea
• 1.7 million in Ethiopia
• 1.5 million in Afghanistan
• 1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe
• 1 million in Vietnam
• 150,000 in Latin America mainly Cuba
• 10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power."^[4]

Courtois claims that Communist regimes are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism. The statistics of victims includes executions, famine, deaths resulting from deportations, physical confinement, or through forced labor.

Soviet repressions[edit]

Repressions and famines occurring in the Soviet Union under the regimes of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin described in the book include:

• the executions of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners
• the murder of hundreds of thousands of rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922
• the Russian famine of 1921, which caused the death of 5 million people
• the extermination and deportation of the Don Cossacks in 1920
• the murder of tens of thousands in concentration camps in the period between 1918 and 1930
• the Great Purge which killed almost 690,000 people
• the deportation of 2 million so-called "kulaks" from 1930 to 1932
• the deaths of 4 million Ukrainians (Holodomor) and 2 million others during the famine of 1932 and 1933
• the deportations of Poles, Ukrainians, Moldavians and people from the Baltic Republics from 1939 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1945
• the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941
• the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943
• the deportation of Chechens in 1944
• the deportation of the Ingush in 1944.^[5] (see also Population transfer in the Soviet Union)