User:The Last Angry Man/mass killings

Mass killing of Non-combatants have occoured under communist regimes.These killings carried out in the pursuit of the communist ideology of forming a Utopian society were caused for the most part by terror-starvation, terror, lethal forced labor and Ethnic cleansing. Estimates for those killed range from some 60 to 100 million. . The highest documented death tolls have occurred in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin with estimates for those killed ranging from 20  to 40 million during Stalin`s rule to some 60 million for the USSR as a whole. In the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong, with estimates ranging from 65 to 72.3million. And in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge with an estimated death toll of between 2 and 2.5 million.

There have also been killings on a smaller scale in North Korea, Vietnam, and some Eastern European and African countries.