>>10336071The question of the Stalinist repressions is rather complicated, but I, as a historian, will try to answer it.
I am still studying, but I have already passed the history of the USSR. Here the fact is that the number of repressed depends on who will teach you)
At the Department of History of the USSR, half of the teachers are terrible Stalinists, and the second half are terrible anti-Stalinists liberals.
Listening to one side is useless and stupid, because some will underestimate numbers, while others will overstate.
And yes, Solzhenitsyn's work cannot fully be a historical source, because it is literature, fiction.
And it is also important to understand what we mean by repression, because repression is not necessarily murder or execution. This may be a link to Siberia, or a prison term or something else.
This is what I managed to unearth, although I have never been particularly interested in this topic.
The number of political repressions that ended in executions is 600 thousand people.
The number of executions and deaths during the reign of Stalin, not counting political repression - the estimates are very different, the most minimal 2 million, the maximum 10 million.
The average is about 5-6 million.
About how many people suffered from Stalin’s actions, if you count those who were shot and those who were sent to prison or sent to Siberia — about 20-25 million
