How many people did Joe Stallin kill?

Question

How many did he kill? Including collective farming and the people he killed in WW II? I heard he killed nearly 60 million

Answer 1

11 Million were killed by Lazar Kaganovich...but you don't see films about his holocaust....can you guess why?

Answer 2

I don't think this can be answered properly cause before the glasnosty there was no info about what happens east of Austria but I know that just in Ukrain 5 million people were deliberately starved to death and that's just one country of the many in the USSR.(and I'm not ukrainian) so I guess the total number must be way more than that.Oh yeah and the Holocaust is sad too but nothing sepcial cause it keeps happening to other nations too except they don't get compensation money afterwards.

Answer 3

Since collapse of USSR over 90 million people have been estimated to be found in unmarked cemeteries. More are being discovered each month. Russia's population of 149 million is the same as it was before the Russian revolution 90 years ago.

Answer 4

It is quite hard to know how many of the Soviet world war II dead are because of Hitler's policies and how many are because of Stalin's.

The nazis were really doing a total genocide in occupied eastern Europe (including Russia), not just against jews and gypsies but also against the local majority populations, mostly slavic and therefore "inferior" and deserving to starve to death according to the nazis. I would argue that the occupation in the East was much more brutal than the occupation e.g. of France.

On the other hand Stalin displaced several soviet minorities to "prevent them collaborating with the Germans@ (e.g. the Chechens) , effectively considered soviet PoW to be traitors and dispatched them to Siberia as soon as they were liberated from German concentration camps etc

Answer 5

The number is given variously but some estimates have it at around 25 million. Not to be outdone, Mao in China managed to kill off about 35 million Chinese peasants.

Hitler was a rank amateur by comparison.

Answer 6

"The" accepted number is 20+ million.

In one of those classic cases where people ask "Why didn't anyone care" ... when they note that this is three times as high,or maybe higher, than the number killed in the Jewish Holocaust. Why doesn't anyone every mention this? The standard answer is that people don't seem to mind when crazy leaders kill their own people, they only pay attention when the crazy leaders kill other people or people in another country.

Pol Pot is a classic example. We don't even remember who he is, and statistically his one million plus killed was higher than either the Jewish death toll or the Russian death toll, in percentage of residents in that area.

Joseph Stalin still holds the record in sheer numbers, however.

Answer 7

your guess is very close, according to the book ( Letter to Soviet Leaders) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn He quotes a study done in the early 70's, by Moscow university that estimates that 100 million Soviet citizens died as a result of state sponsored terrorism and war under the rule of Stalin. so if you discount his complicity in the start and prosecution of WW2 the total would be close to 60 million.

Answer 8

Personally...None. His Regime killed upwards of twenty million, although exact numbers are hard to pin down. Communists in general killed over 125 million worldwide. Hopefully someday we'll have communism here in the states so we can all be equal. (Sarcasm)

Answer 9

In the 20 to 30 million range, far outdoing his buddy Hitler. After the first tens of millions, the numbers become incomprehensible when thinking of the human slaughter.

Answer 10

I can't remember but in school I thought they said 30 million

Answer 11

About the same as Hitler, Patton wanted to take the 7th in to moscow nad he could have.. He should have it would stopped the cold war from happening...