> Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro
> Patrick Sweeney wrote:
> >
> > On another tangent, don't these deaths have more to do
> with totalitarianism than economic systems? Was it
> communism or the fact that he was a dictator that let
> Stalin kill so many? Could he have been a capitalist
> dictator and killed 20 million?
> >
> AFAIK, this body count is the number of Russians that died
> during WW2.
>
> Stalin's body count is a different number.
>
> Alberto Monteiro
Nope. Most modern sources I've seen put Stalin's death count at
somewhere between 20 and 40 million. I lean towards the low end of
that scale, which is why I used 20. Hitler's death count for the # of
Russians that died in the Second World War is probably somewhere over
_40_ million, actually. I believe I've seen the number 37 million
civilians killed, but that's just a vague memory. The smallest
estimte I've seen in the last 10 years for Stalin's death count is 10
million. I tend to think that once you're talking about a body count
that runs into 8 _digits_, it doesn't really matter all that much.
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