Communism Death Toll

This cluster centers on debates about the massive death tolls from communist regimes, especially Stalin's USSR (Holodomor, purges), Mao's China, and others, with estimates of 60-100 million deaths cited from sources like Wikipedia and The Black Book of Communism, often compared to Nazi atrocities.

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drran Nov 17, 2021 View on HN

Communists in USSR killed about 10x more innocents than Nazi. (Did you heard about Holodomor?). Why Nazi bad but USSR isn't?

tim333 Apr 4, 2016 View on HN

And usually with good reason. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism for details of the 94 million deaths of their own people.

nradov Aug 17, 2023 View on HN

The USSR perpetuated the Great Purge and the Holodomor, which together killed approximately 5M people (estimates vary). This is a matter of historical fact, not just belief.

lootsauce Feb 20, 2018 View on HN

Fair enough, combined all purposive deaths, though hotly debated, per wikipedia under Stalin alone the number ranges from 8 to 61 million. So my tens of millions in that context is not out of line though safer to say millions. Either way its abhorrent.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...

gnarbarian Feb 28, 2018 View on HN

not just idle speculation, Communism lead to somewhere between 85 and 100 million deaths in the 20th century:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...

algorias Feb 2, 2023 View on HN

Read up on history. Communism caused millions of needless deaths.

misja111 Aug 9, 2023 View on HN

Sure, tell that to the relatives of the 4 million Ukrainians who died during Stalin's farming reforms, to the 2 million Chinese who died during the Cultural Revolution, or to the 2 million Cambodian victims under Pol Pot.

tomohawk Nov 9, 2014 View on HN

It was bad enough just the way it was, with 80 - 100 million people being killed by the communists.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...

madengr Mar 16, 2022 View on HN

Why 70, so you can ignore the millions killed by Stalin and communism?

jpadkins Jan 25, 2012 View on HN

The Soviet Union killed 100m of its own citizens. Now what doesn't look so bad?