I don't remember Solzhenitsyn ever coming up with such a number. But the only way you get numbers substantially in excess of 15 million for the USSR is by blaming Stalin for all or part of the Soviet dead in World War II, 20-30 million depending on who's counting. That is more than a stretch as far as I am concerned, by a long shot. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: David Jennings [MSAI] <djenning at ai.uga.edu> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 8:41 AM Subject: Re: The 20th Century - The Economist
>On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Alexandre Fenelon wrote:
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>>Well, the black book of Communism gives us the following estimates
>>1-China: 55 millions
>>2-USSR: 15 millions
>>3-North Korea: 1 million
>>4-Vietnam: 1 million
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>>I would like to know where The Economist discovered those remaining 47
>>million deaths.
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>I seem to remember that Solzhenitsyn came up with a number like 60
>million. The page attributes the stats to something called "Statistics of
>Democide" by Rudy J. Rummel.
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>-david
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