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Koukl details the number of people killed in various events involving theism and compares them to the much higher tens of millions of people killed under [[Atheism|atheistic]] [[communist]] regimes, in which [[militant atheism]] served as the official doctrine of the state.<ref name="Koukl" />   

Koukl details the number of people killed in various events involving theism and compares them to the much higher tens of millions of people killed under [[Atheism|atheistic]] [[communist]] regimes, in which [[militant atheism]] served as the official doctrine of the state.<ref name="Koukl" />   

[[Communist]] regimes killed 60 million in the 20th century through [[genocide]], according to ''Le Monde'', more than 100 million people<ref> [[China]]: 65 million [[mass murder|deaths]]; [[USSR]]: 20 million deaths; [[North Korea]]: 2 million deaths; [[Cambodia]]: 2 million deaths; [[Africa]]: 1.7 million deaths; [[Afghanistan]]: 1.5 million deaths; [[Vietnam]]: 1 million deaths; [[Eastern Europe]]: 1 million deaths; [[Latin America]]: 150,000 deaths; [[Communist]] movements or parties not in power: about 10,000 deaths. "Nearly 100 million deaths. Not casualties of war, but [[mass murder|civilian slaughter]]. Deaths in [[gulag]]s and [[concentration camp]]s. Deaths from a bullet to the head. Most of all, deaths by [[starvation]] - the result either of planned [[famine]]s, meted out as punishment to internal foes (as in [[Stalin]]'s USSR), or unintended consequences of [[central planning|policy]]." [[Claire Wolfe]], Black Book of Communism - Review , [[Free Republc]], (formerly posted on the Pro-[[Second Amendment]] [[Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership]] ([[JPFO]]), http://www.jpfo.org/wolfe-blackbook.htm No longer available), http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/786293/posts?page=33  Accessed December 3, 2014 </ref> according to ''The Black Book of Communism'' (Panné, J.L., Paczkowski A. et al, 1999).<ref> Available at https://archive.org/stream/TheBlackBookofCommunism10/the-black-book-of-communism-jean-louis-margolin-1999-communism_djvu.txt Accessed December 3, 2014. https://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Book-Communism-Repression/dp/0674076087</ref> and according to [[Cleon Skousen]]<ref> father of [[anti-Communist]] [[conservative]] [[libertarian]] [[survivalist]] author [[Joel Skousen]]</ref> in his best-selling book ''The Naked Communist''.<ref>"In July 2014, the noted [[[African-American]]] surgeon and political commentator, Dr. [[Ben Carson]], appeared on [[Fox News]] and said, "[[The Naked Communist]] lays out the whole [[progressive]] agenda.</ref>

Wolfe, Claire (2000).  [http://web.archive.org/web/20071023054343/http://www.jpfo.org/wolfe-blackbook.htm "Review of ''The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression'' by Stephanie Courtois et al., trans. by Mark Kramer, et al.".  Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership website.  Retrieved from October 23, 2007 archive at Internet Archive on May 21, 2015.</ref> [[Communist]] regimes killed 60 million in the 20th century through [[genocide]], according to ''Le Monde'', more than 100 million people<ref> [[China]]: 65 million [[mass murder|deaths]]; [[USSR]]: 20 million deaths; [[North Korea]]: 2 million deaths; [[Cambodia]]: 2 million deaths; [[Africa]]: 1.7 million deaths; [[Afghanistan]]: 1.5 million deaths; [[Vietnam]]: 1 million deaths; [[Eastern Europe]]: 1 million deaths; [[Latin America]]: 150,000 deaths; [[Communist]] movements or parties not in power: about 10,000 deaths. "Nearly 100 million deaths. Not casualties of war, but [[mass murder|civilian slaughter]]. Deaths in [[gulag]]s and [[concentration camp]]s. Deaths from a bullet to the head. Most of all, deaths by [[starvation]] - the result either of planned [[famine]]s, meted out as punishment to internal foes (as in [[Stalin]]'s USSR), or unintended consequences of [[central planning|policy]]."</ref> according to ''The Black Book of Communism'' (Panné, J.L., Paczkowski A. et al, 1999).<ref> Available at https://archive.org/stream/TheBlackBookofCommunism10/the-black-book-of-communism-jean-louis-margolin-1999-communism_djvu.txt Accessed December 3, 2014. https://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Book-Communism-Repression/dp/0674076087</ref> and according to [[Cleon Skousen]]<ref> father of [[anti-Communist]] [[conservative]] [[libertarian]] [[survivalist]] author [[Joel Skousen]]</ref> in his best-selling book ''The Naked Communist''.<ref>"In July 2014, the noted [[[African-American]]] surgeon and political commentator, Dr. [[Ben Carson]], appeared on [[Fox News]] and said, "[[The Naked Communist]] lays out the whole [[progressive]] agenda.</ref>

It is estimated that in the past 100 years, governments under the banner of atheistic [[communism]] have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000 human lives.<ref>

It is estimated that in the past 100 years, governments under the banner of atheistic [[communism]] have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000 human lives.<ref>