I am designing a t-shirt for an anticommunist initiative in the Czech
republic (www.dekomunizace). I would like to create the list of
countries which were or still are under the communist rule together
with the number of victims of respective regimes.

The list would look like (the datas are NOT correct!):

Peoples Republic of China 1945-2000 1,500,000
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic 1948-1989 65,000
Soviet Union 1917-1945 23,000,000
Soviet Union 1946-1989 12,000,000
...

So I need the number of victims caused by communism in 20th century
for all communist countries.

Thank you

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Clarification of Question by kukurin-ga on 06 May 2005 13:54 PDT

The URL of the project is http://www.dekomunizace.cz

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 05 Jun 2005 06:46 PDT

I've sen bellow that you've written several countries you're
interested in. Could you please define the number of the countries
(given that it is a $10 question)? Please note, that your question is
about to expire, and you might need to repost it to get it answered.

Would these estimates (from "The Black Book of Communism") meet your needs?

"According to the authors, the communist death toll approaches 100 million people. 

The authors? research offers a rough exposition of the crimes of
communism: USSR, 20 million deaths; China, 65 million deaths; Vietnam,
1 million deaths; North Korea, 2 million deaths; Cambodia, 2 million
deaths; Eastern Europe, 1 million deaths; Latin America, 150,000
deaths; Africa, 1.7 million deaths; Afghanistan, 1.5 million deaths;
the international communist movement and communist parties not in
power, about 10,000 deaths."

http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=4841

Thanks for the quotation. But I would like to know estimate numbers
for particular countires, at least in the Eastern Europe:
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania,
Bulgaria...