[Freeleesy]

Stalin, huh. Murderer of tens of millions (including one of my great grandfathers), enslaver of hundreds of millions. Quite the character to admire or wish to emulate.Stalin only murdered 20 million...

[Ancesthntr]

“Stalin only murdered 20 million...”

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That we know of. We also thought that 20 million citizens of the USSR died during WW2 - until the archives showed that it was 30% higher, 26 million.

How many did he murder by supporting Mao’s rise to power? How many dissidents were murdered in Eastern Europe by governments that Stalin had created to be his puppets? How many people were shot trying to escape his prison empire?