Comment on Felix Dzerzhinsky
gressen@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky
He was a key architect of the Red Terror and de-Cossackization
Red Terror death estimates range between 50,000 and 600,000.
De-Cossackization deaths range anywhere from 10,000 to 700,000.
Trudov@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There’s a lot of variation in the numbers for the number of victims, isn’t there?
In fact, it’s quite common. An executioner for some, a savior for others.