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The Bitter Toll of Communist Savagery
Similar examples of savagery were experienced in every country
Communism took over, Cambodia, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam and Eas-
tern European and African countries. This bloody toll is set out in The
Black Book of Communism as follows:
These crimes tend to fit a recognizable pattern even if the practices vary to
some extent by regime. The pattern includes execution by various means,
such as firing squads, hanging, drowning, battering, and, in certain cases,
gassing, poisoning, or "car accidents"; destruction of the population by star-
vation, through man-made famine, the withholding of food, or both; depor-
tation, through which death can occur in transit (either through physical ex-
haustion or through confinement in an enclosed space), at one's place of re-
sidence, or through forced labour (exhaustion, illness, hunger, cold). Periods
described as times of "civil war" are more complex – it is not always easy to
distinguish between events caused by fighting between rulers and rebels
and events that can properly be described only as a massacre of the civilian
population.
Noneless, we have to start somewhere. The following rough approximation,
based on unofficial estimates, gives some sense of the scale and gravity of
these crimes:
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 international Communist movement and Communist parties
not in power: about 10,000 deaths
The total approaches 100 million people killed. 116