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:Good. I'm following you. Will you have figures on ''both'' estimated internees and deaths between a certain timeframes, and will the timeframes of the two categories match up? `[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 13:43, 10 October 2018 (EDT)
:Good. I'm following you. Will you have figures on ''both'' estimated internees and deaths between a certain timeframes, and will the timeframes of the two categories match up? `[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 13:43, 10 October 2018 (EDT)
:Also, there were penal battallions that served with the Red Army during WWII who served with a shovel rather than a rifle. These may have existed before the war, and continued after the war. They mostly dug trenches and tank traps. They had a high casualty rate from hunger, disease, exhaustion, and combat fatalities. Being they were constantly on they move, and sometimes not directly under control of the KGB, not much is known. But Solzhenitsyn mentions them from third hand testimony, and the losses evidentially are high. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 13:50, 10 October 2018 (EDT)
:Also, there were penal battallions that served with the Red Army during WWII who served with a shovel rather than a rifle. These may have existed before the war, and continued after the war. They mostly dug trenches and tank traps. They had a high casualty rate from hunger, disease, exhaustion, and combat fatalities. Being they were constantly on they move, and sometimes not directly under control of the KGB, not much is known. But Solzhenitsyn mentions them from third hand testimony, and the losses evidentially are high. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 13:50, 10 October 2018 (EDT)
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In the March 20, 2005 issue of ''The Washington Times'', Richard W. Rahn, adjunct scholar of the libertarian Cato Institute, recounted: "I happened to be at the Kremlin in Moscow in August 1992, when the Russia demographers announced they had determined there were 63 million “excess deaths” in the Soviet Union during Josef Stalin’s reign — 1923-53."
Actually, this had been determined ten years prior as quoted by a Russian university organization<ref>Dyadkin, Iosef G. (1983). ''Demograficheskaya statistika neyestestvennoy smertnosti v SSSR'' [''Unnatural Deaths in the U.S.S.R.: 1928-1954''] trans. Tania Deruguine (Piscataway NJ: Transaction Publishers [Rutgers University])</ref> reported 56 to 62 million "unnatural deaths" for the USSR overall, with 34 to 49 million under Stalin.</ref>
This university organization republished this account in 1993 and may have been the very book mentioned by Richard Rahn. It may have been misquoted in a ''Pravda'' article—if ''Pravda'' published it at all and was the mode of transmission—and picked up by Rahn or misunderstood by Rahn. In 1993 this may have been the first official acknowledgement by Moscow of these figures or the first time ''Pravda'' had reported them.
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