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The death toll within totalitarian Communist states such as the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China and Cambodia, resulting from the implementation of communist land reforms, political violence and repression, has been quite high.

Soviet Union

Stalin (1924-1953): The number of Soviet citizens killed by the Stalin regime will never be known with accuracy. Believable counts indicate that between 8.5 million and 50 million people died of starvation, politically-motivated murder and in forced labor camps. The most reliable estimate today is somewhere around 20 million. See also Communist Party of Russia

China

Mao (1949-1975): About 50 million people died in Communist China as a result of ill-planned land reforms, implementation of communist agriculture policies, repression of minorities and political violence under Mao Zedong. See also Communist Party of China

Early Political Purges and Land Reform: 2 million

"Great Leap Forward": 31-33 million

"Cultural Revolution": 1 million (some estimates go up to 20 million)

Ethnic Minorities, including the occupation of Tibet: 750,000-900,000

Forced Labor Camps: 20 million

Cambodia

Fair estimates say that about 1.6 million people were killed during the short but incredibly brutal reign of Cambodian communist Pol Pot, between 1975 and 1978. Out of a beginning population of 8 million, this means that about 20% of all Cambodians died from political violence, mass executions (genocide) and state-endorsed starvation during Pol Pot's rule. See The Killing Fields

External Links

Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century

See Also

• Communism
• Police state
• Communist Party of the United States of America
• List of Communist States
• List of Socialist States
• Cold War
• Iron Curtain
• Socialism-Marxism
• Korean Airlines Flight 007 for the connection of the shootdown by the Soviets of KAL 007, with 269 people aboard, on Sept. 1, 1983 with the heightened U.S./Soviet confrontations of 1983-4.
• The Soviet/ U.S naval confrontation over KAL 007
• KAL 007 and the Soviet Top Secret Memos
• Liberalism: Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism
• Mobocracy, Social Effects of the Theory of Evolution, Communist Racism, Genocide, Holocaust
• National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi)
• National Socialism - the Nazis were elitist Police State liberals not conservatives
• Obamunism: Obamanomics Economic planning of the Obama administration fiscal policy, Obama administration monetary policy, Obamacare, Federal funding via Crony capitalism (Obama donor list), Deficit spending, Bailout, Obama administration corporate bailouts), Recession of 2008 (Recession), Economic stimulus, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Recovery Summer 2010, Progressives for Obama, Obamageddon)

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