In reply to Douglas Griffin:
Now you thought the Soviet archives put the number etc etc etc but you are wrong,and Conquest is using an old trick.
From achieve evidence released by the vehement anti-Communist and traitor Yeltsin and his government,total death sentences for prisoners and those who were free from 1921-1953 was between 775,866 and 786,098(source: Victims of the Soviet penal system in the pre-war years:A first approach on the basis of archival evidence)
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12,733 admitted excecutions during the foreign interventionist/imperialist war,this figure could be as much as 40,000 though.
So it would appear to be 800,000 in total for the 1921-1953 period but this is not so.
Vinton in the Katyn documents :politics and history has evidence that execution rates for sentences passed in 1940 were 60% of the total with many being refused or revoked.681,692 of the 780,000 or so death sentences were passed in 37-38,when paranoia about subversion reached it's peak, when the Nazis made a pact with the Japanese that was specifically directed at the USSR.This as well as the formation of the fourth int. and illegal advocacy of overthrowing the Soviets regime from inside.
Stalin set a cap of 72,950 death penalties for a 1937 special operation to fight internal enemies this was carried out by thev Troikas.They requested that the amount of prisoner transport should be doubled in 1938 so if that was the case evn though Stalin realized excesses had been made and revoked many sentences as well as punishing some leaders.The total executed in 37-38 would be under 150,00 even though many of the people sentenced were done so in their absence and may have escaped as well as sentences being removed by higher authorities(Thurston
ife and terror in Stalin's Russia)there were also 30,514 death sentences passed by military courts and 4387 by regular courts.
so far from 600,000 or anti-communist propaganda of '2 million' or 'several million' it was really 190,000.
Aggregate deaths(all kind of deaths)in the Soviet Union for this period were actually lower in 1937-38 than in prior years.
If you apply Vinton's rate of 60% to the other 100,000 death sentences passed during the rest of Stalin's time the total number would be 250,000.
even including the 40,000 executed when the 1 million strong army of imperialists came to kill the Russian Communists in 1921.
I'll get more stuff to you tomorrw i'm off to do things nw.
Bear in mind what we did then to please.
night night
oh and don't try the old holocaust denial con on me please,because that's what it is.
Post edited at 21:42