Just to give perspective on this incredible murder by government, if all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5', then they would circle the earth ten times. Also, this democide murdered 6 times more people than died in combat in all the foreign and internal wars of the century. Finally, given popular estimates of the dead in a major nuclear war, this total democide is as though such a war did occur, but with its dead spread over a century. ~ Professor R. J. Rummel

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. -- The Foreward is titled The Uses of Atrocity

Death by Government by R. J. Rummel

Rummel's updated figures at his website: http://hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM

Just to give perspective on this incredible murder by government, if all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5', then they would circle the earth ten times. Also, this democide murdered 6 times more people than died in combat in all the foreign and internal wars of the century. Finally, given popular estimates of the dead in a major nuclear war, this total democide is as though such a war did occur, but with its dead spread over a century. ~ Professor R. J. Rummel

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. -- The Foreward is titled The Uses of Atrocity

Death by Government by R. J. Rummel

Rummel's updated figures at his website: http://hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM