Kovlovsky wrote:
The number of deads from the stalinist purges are hard to certify, but the numbers I see quoted the most are between 10 and 15 millions of people. Although the gulags are well known, those were not death camps, but were hard labor camps. Those who were killed there were died most often because of abysmal living conditions or by the arbitrary violence of the camp keepers. The most horrible gulag was at Kolyma in the far east of USSR and it was run by a kind of a corrupt satrap. All other deads were actually not killed in gulags, but in the NKVD's prisons and torture centers or executed after making fanciful confessions obtained after tortures. So it's a mix of murders made by a paranoid regime or criminal negligence. There is nothing to be proud of in the actions of Stalin. History is rarely totally black and totaly white, but sometimes the grey tint is not far from black.
Very easy to certify.
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Information about deaths of prisoners in the Gulag in the period 1930—1956
Year number % to all
1930 7 980 4,2
1931 7 283 2,9
1932 13 197 4,8
1933 67 297 15,3
1934 25 187 4,28
1935 31 636 2,75
1936 24 993 2,11
1937 31 056 2,42
1938 108 654 5,35
1939 44 750 3,1
1940 41 275 2,72
1941 115 484 6,1
1942 352 560 24,9
1943 267 826 22,4
1944 114 481 9,2
1945 81 917 5,95
1946 30 715 2,2
1947 66 830 3,59
1948 50 659 2,28
1949 29 350 1,21
1950 24 511 0,95
1951 22 466 0,92
1952 20 643 0,84
1953 9 628 0,67
1954 8 358 0,69
1955 4 842 0,53
1956 3 164 0,4
In total: 1 606 742
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