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| averagejoel 12/10/18 5:49:17 PM #120: | * Six million to seven million killed in the punitive famine inflicted on peasants in 1932 and 1933. the famine was, in fact, caused by the "more prosperous peasants" from the previous point burning their grain in the midst of a drought. certainly not punitive on Stalin's part. * One million exiled from Moscow and Leningrad in 1935 for belonging to families of former nobility, merchants, capitalists and officials. exile =/= death * About one million executed in the ''great terror'' of 1937-38, and another four million to six million sent to forced labor camps from which most, including Mr. Medvedev's father, did not return. this is the closest thing in the article to a concrete number of deaths, and again, the people executed had largely committed treason. but sure, one million deaths. * Two million to three million sent to camps for violating absurdly strict labor laws imposed in 1940. imprisonment =/= death * At least 10 million to 12 million ''repressed'' in World War II, including millions of Soviet-Germans and other ethnic minorities forcibly relocated. not sure what they're trying to accomplish by putting "repressed" in quotation marks here, but it is not the same thing as a death. * More than one million arrested on political grounds from 1946 to Stalin's death in 1953. arrest =/= death --- peanut butter and dick ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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