how many people has communism killed, murdered, tortured and starved to death?

The black book of communism is an attempt to get an accurate number for the deaths directly caused by various communist regimes.



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Why isn't the Black Book of Communism on the curriculum of every school in Europe? Because it isn't exhaustive enough? Because its authors lack credibility? Because there is still more to be understood and researched on the matter?

At more than 850 pages of carefully sifted evidence by a group of top-level scholars from a variety of countries and disciplines, the Black Book is as solid a piece of scholarship as any other you'll find being taught in our schools.

Is it definitive? How could it be? Communist regimes went to great lengths to conceal their crimes, and one of the most oppressive of all, North Korea, still exists to this day. What the book does is use the best available evidence to give a sense of the scale of what we are dealing with.

In introducing the Black Book, lead author Stephane Courtois, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, offers the following rough breakdown of the numbers of people that communism killed:

USSR -- 20 million

China -- 65 million

Vietnam -- 1 million

North Korea -- 2 million

Cambodia -- 2 million

Eastern Europe -- 1 million

Latin America -- 150,000

Africa -- 1.7 million

Afghanistan -- 1.5 million

Communist movements, parties not in power -- 10,000

Same shit is true about capitalism, bro. It's corrupt governments, not economic systems that kill and torture. Or are you too inbred to know the difference between government and economy?

Can't find the data but how many aztec and mayan indians were killed by the spanish. over 50 million. the capitalist crimes are disguised.

Why limit it to communism? How about government , period.
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Lists all government mass murders in the 20th century.