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  • The consenus is about 20 million, though this is likely an understatement. Robert Conquest's book, The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties (Macmillan 1968), gives this figure based on a number of estimates of executions, including: 1936 to 1938, probably about 1,000,000 1936 to 1950 about 12,000,000 died in the camps 1930-1936: 3,500,000 died in the collectivization The figure may well be higher, since the above does not include Stalin's last three years after 1950, or camp deaths before 1936, such as the Ukrainian famine that Stalin purposely imposed on the region, which killed 5 million from 1932-1934. It also doesn't include the ones killed in Eastern Europe after the Soviet's conquest at the end of World War II. Some believe the figure may be as high as 60 million. http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2005/04/how-many-did-stalin-really-murder.html

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