Chronology
Bars share one scale, 0–45 million. The lighter segment spans the range of estimates.
Holodomor
3.9–7 millionkilled
Stalin targeted landowning farmers. New York Times Reporter Walter Duranty denied any form of genocide was happening, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Board has not retracted the award.
Read moreThe Holocaust
~6 millionJews killed
The systematic, state-sponsored genocide carried out by the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Hitler blamed the "Greedy Capitalist Jews" for the nation's problems, similar to other Socialists blaming landowners and billionaires.
Read more at ushmm.orgThe Great Leap Forward
25–45 millionkilled
Mao Zedong's centralized government policies dictated methods for agricultural production, resulting in the most severe famine and cannibalism episode in human history.
Read more at ebsco.comThe Chinese Cultural Revolution
1–7 millionkilled
Mao's decade-long political purge mobilized Red Guards to destroy The Four Olds (Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Customs, Old Habits), similar to Antifa motivated by anti-christian, anti-capitalist, anti-western, etc. beliefs
Read more at britannica.comKhmer Rouge
1.5–3 millionkilled
Pol Pot's Marxist regime emptied cities, abolished currency, and executed perceived enemies of the agrarian revolution.
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Other Socialist Atrocities
- Russian Famine~5 million deaths
- Kazakh Famine1.5–2.3 million deaths
- Mongolian Purges20,000–35,000 deaths
- Polish Operation~111,000 deaths
- Deportation of Chechens & Ingush120,000–423,000 deaths
- Deportation of Crimean Tatars34,300–110,000 deaths
- Vietnamese Land Reform13,500–172,000 deaths
- Red Terror500,000–980,000 deaths
- North Korean Famine500,000–600,000 deaths