The First Five Year Plan and Great Purge killed millions.
Evidence
To an estimated nine to twelve million victims of the First Five Year Plan (1928–1933) must be added the victims of the Great Purge—an estimated three million executed while five to nine million were arrested and deported. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1947
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Stalin-era execution estimates omit graves undiscovered until the war (similarity 0.81)
- Stalin’s purges were a standing institution, not response to circumstance. (similarity 0.79)