That’s a conservative number, too. Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, Soviet historian and son of a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary who was rubbed out in the purges, and himself a longtime prisoner in the GULAG, credited Uncle Joe with 100 Million. That included the deaths of the Great Patriotic War, with colossal mis-management of the response. Of course, any effort on that scale requires teamwork.
That’s a conservative number, too. Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, Soviet historian and son of a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary who was rubbed out in the purges, and himself a longtime prisoner in the GULAG, credited Uncle Joe with 100 Million. That included the deaths of the Great Patriotic War, with colossal mis-management of the response. Of course, any effort on that scale requires teamwork.