Number of deaths in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia
Estimates of the number of deaths attributable to
Joseph Stalin vary widely. Record-keeping of the executions of political prisoners and ethnic minorities are regarded as neither reliable nor complete.
[1] Historians working after the Soviet Union's dissolution have estimated victim totals ranging from approximately 3 million
[2][3][4] to nearly 9 million.
[5][6] Some claim the death toll could be 20 to 30 million.
[7][8][9]
Before the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, researchers who attempted to count the number of people killed during the period of Stalin produced estimates ranging from 2 to 60 million.
[10] After the
Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives also became available, containing official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953),
[11] around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag and some 390,000 deaths during
kulak forced resettlement – with a total of about 2.9 million officially recorded victims in these categories.
[12]
Gulag[edit]
According to official Soviet estimates, more than 14 million people passed through the
Gulag from 1929 to 1953, with a further 7 to 8 million being
deported and exiled to remote areas of the Soviet Union (including entire nationalities in several cases).
[13] According to a 1993 study of archival Soviet data, a total of 1,053,829 people died in the Gulag from 1934 to 1953 (there is no archival data for the period 1919–1934).
[2] However, taking into account the likelihood of unreliable record keeping, and the fact that it was common practice to release prisoners who were either suffering from incurable diseases or near death,
[14] non-state estimates of the actual Gulag death toll are usually higher. Golfo Alexopoulos, history professor at the University of South Florida, believes that at least 6 million people died as a result of their detention in the gulags
[15]
Soviet famine of 1932–33[edit]
Some have also included the deaths of 6 to 7 million people in the
1932–1933 famine among the victims of repression during the period of Stalin.
Soviet famine of 1946–47
famine resulted in an estimated 1 to 1.5 million lives lost in addition to secondary population losses due to reduced fertility.[34]
We could go on but this thread is not about Stalin..............Stalin was a butcher.......and resulted in millions dying in Russia......
Anyone who he perceived as a threat including old friends were killed.
