More like 100 million. See "The Black Book of Communism" for details.
Yeah, I know.... By most accounts, the number 26 million only accounts for Stalin's murders. One would need to include Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, and perhaps Castro and the South American Marxists in order to get a better number (100 million).
Thank you for correcting my slip, though! I hope that the number doesn't skyrocket this century, but with China looking the way it does, I do think it's possible (ahem, Three Gorges Dam)...
:) ttt