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The VictimsWhy a Memorial? Why in Canada? | The Victims | Impact on the Community | Funding
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,
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: Stephane Courtois, et al., The Black Book of Communism, Harvard University Press, 1999
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