Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

So being generous we’ll go high and say 10 million

Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin’s regime were 20 million or higher.

or maybe you can “be generous” and go with the figure you quoted.

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