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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 ...
According to estimates based on data from Soviet archives post-1991, there were around 1.6 million deaths during the whole period from 1929 to 1953. [25] The tentative historical consensus is that of the 18 million people who passed through the gulag system from 1930 to 1953, between 1.5 and 1.7 million died as a result of their incarceration. [22]
3.5-3.9 Million [24] in Ukraine; in total: ~5.7 to 8.7 million Scholars continue to debate "whether the man-made Soviet famine was a central act in a campaign of genocide, or whether it was designed to simply cow Ukrainian peasants into submission, drive them into the collectives and ensure a steady supply of grain for Soviet industrialization."
The Victims of Communism Memorial is a memorial in Washington, D.C. located at the intersection of Massachusetts and New Jersey Avenues and G Street, NW, two blocks from Washington Union Station within view of the U.S. Capitol. [1] The memorial is dedicated "to the more than one hundred million victims of communism".
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.
The introduction by Courtois is entitled "The Crimes of Communism", which was responsible for the deaths of nearly 100 million human beings. [ 18 ] "The crimes of communism have not been subject to a legitimate and normal assessment from a historical or a moral point of view.
The Communist Party-run news agency Xinhua first announced Li’s death with a short message at 8.16am local time. The brief announcement was that Li had “passed away on Friday in Shanghai ...