Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Numbers

• U.S.S.R.            20 million deaths
• China                 65 million deaths
• Vietnam             1 million deaths
• North Korea       2 million deaths
• Cambodia          2 million deaths
• Eastern Europe 1 million deaths
• Latin America    150,000 deaths
• Africa                 1.7 million deaths
• Afghanistan       1.5 million deaths

The total approaches 100 million people killed

The Crimes

• The execution of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners without trial, and the murder of hundreds of thousands or rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922
• The famine of 1922, which caused the deaths of 5 million people
• The extermination and deportation of the Don Cossacks in 1920
• The murder of tens of thousands of people in concentration camps from 1918 to 1930
• The liquidation of almost 690,000 people in the Great Purge of 1937-38
• The deportation of 2 million kulaks in 1930 to 1932
• The destruction of 4 million Ukrainians and 2 million others by means of an artificial and systematically perpetuated famine in 1932-33
• The deportation of hundreds of thousands of Poles, Ukrainians, Balts, Belarusians, Moldovans, and Bessarabians from 1939 to 1941, in 1944-45, and again in 1949
• The deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941
• The wholesale deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943
• The wholesale deportation of the Chechens in 1944
• The wholesale deportation of the Ingush in 1944
• The deportation and extermination of the urban population in Cambodia from 1975 to 1978
• The slow destruction of the Tibetans by the Chinese since 1950
• Crimes committed by the regimes of Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, and Pol Pot

Source : The Black Book of Communism