Quote by David Remnick

I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

— Grover Furr

“There has been much controversy about the numbers of those imprisoned and killed at various times in the Stalin years, but the opening of…

— Archie Brown

“It is not fashionable to quote Stalin but he said once, "half a million liquidated is a statistic, and one man killed in a…

— John le Carré

“There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where…

— Robert Conquest

Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.

— Rick Wilson

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

— Fidel Castro

“According to a poll of 2005, 42 per cent of the Russian people, and 60 per cent of those over 60 years of age,…

— Orlando Figes

“Estimates of casualties, civilian and military, are notoriously inexact, but it is likely that some 27 million Soviet citizens died as a direct result…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Of the 3 million prisoners taken by the Soviets during the war, more than a third died in captivity.”

— Keith Lowe

“I'll tell you why the six million matter so much: it is because the Jews are the chosen people. Forget the Cambodians, forget the…

— Teju Cole

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too…

— Patricia Ireland

“Experts with an intimate knowledge of the case say that the real number of his total victims is likely closer to four hundred.”

— Charles Graeber