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Can you point us to the exact page of the Black Book you get your numbers from? I want to read along at home
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin
Wild that using a source like this with a straight face doesn't cause you to pause and wonder if maybe there's anything to question about the US academy and their hegemonic representation of history.
They literally say that the intentional killing was around 1 million. Wikipedia is a notably right wing anticommunist source, and they say a million intentional deaths.
So you were lying?