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