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According to historian J. Arch Getty, over half of the 100 million deaths which are attributed to communism were due to famines. [141] Stéphane Courtois posits that many communist regimes caused famines in their efforts to forcibly collectivize agriculture and systematically used it as a weapon by controlling the food supply and distributing ...
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is a 1997 [note 1] book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics [note 2] documenting a history of political repression by communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and allegedly artificially created ...
[6] [17] In 1987, Rudolph Rummel's book Death by Government Rummel estimated that 148 million were killed by Communist governments from 1917 to 1987. The list of Communist countries with more than 1 million estimated victims included: China at 76,702,000 (1949–1987), the Soviet Union at 61,911,000 (1917–1987),
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [222] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [223] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll.
At that point, there will be 13,000 more deaths than births in the US, but the shortfall increases to 1.2 million more deaths annually by 2100 — double the annual shortfall in Japan today.
The memorial is dedicated "to the more than one hundred million victims of communism". The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation says the purpose of the memorial is to ensure "that the history of communist tyranny will be taught to future generations." [2] The Memorial was opened by President George W. Bush on June 12, 2007.
Preliminary numbers suggest that the United States is on track to see more than 3.2 million deaths this year. U.S. deaths in 2020 top 3 million, the most ever counted Skip to main content
Gorbachev’s death should remind people that communism results in death, poverty, and loss of freedom. Unfortunately this contradicts with current polls that show some young people support it ...