Total Numbers

In Honor of Black Ribbon Day (Remembering those murdered by the Nazis and the Communists.)

Communist Dictatorship Murders Around The World: 1917-Present

1.) China (1949-Present):  73,237,000 people killed

2.) Soviet Union (1922-1991):  58,627,000 people killed

3.) Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (1919-1922): 3,284,000 people killed

4.) North Korea (1948-Present): 3,163,000 people killed

5.) Cambodia (1975-1987): 2,627,000 people killed

6.) Afghanistan (1978-1992): 1,750,000 people killed

7.) North Vietnam (1945-1976), Vietnam (1976-Present): 1,670,000 people killed

       *This estimate doesn't include the 1,062,000 people killed by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War and goes from 1945-1987. *

8.) Ethiopia (1974-1991): 1,343,610 people killed

9.) Yugoslavia (1945-1992): 1,072,000 people killed

10.) Chinese Soviet Republic (1931-1934): 700,000 people killed

11.) Mozambique  (1975-1990): 700,000 people killed

12.) Romania (1947-1989):  435,000 people killed

13.) Bulgaria (1946-1990):  222,000 people killed

14.) Angola (1975-1992):  125,000 people killed

15.) Mongolia (1924-1992): 100,000 people killed

16.) Albania (1946-1991): 100,000 people killed

17.) Cuba (1961-Present): 73,000 people killed

     *This estimate covers the time period 1959-1987*

18.) East Germany (1949-1990): 70,000 people killed

19.) Czechoslovakia (1948-1990): 65,000 people killed

     * This estimate covers the time period 1948-1968*

20.) Laos (1975-Present): 56,000 people killed

   * This estimate covers the time period 1975-1987*

21.) Hungary (1949-1989): 27,000 people killed

22.) Poland (1948-1989): 22,000 people killed

23.) Yemen (1969-1990): 1,000 people killed

Targeted Groups Murdered By Nazi Germany:     1933-1945

Jews:   6 million people

Soviet civilians:  7 million people (including 1.3 million Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included in the 6 million figure for Jews)

Soviet prisoners of war: 3 million soldiers (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers)

Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around 1.8 million people

Serb civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): 312,000

People with disabilities living in institutions: 250,000 people

Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000 people

Jehovah's Witnesses:  1,900 people

Repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials:   70,000 people

Homosexuals:  5,000 to 15,000 people held in concentration camps with 60% of those murdered.

Total Civilian Murders by Nazi Germany and collaborators in occupied-Europe 1938-1945 (Includes those in Targeted Groups and those not in Targeted Groups.)

1.       Belgium: 76.000 people

2.       Czechoslovakia: 294,000 to 320,000 people

3.       Denmark: 6,000 people

4.       Estonia: 49,000 people

5.       France (and colonies): 390,000 people

6.       Greece: 171,800 people

7.       Latvia: 220,000 people

8.       Lithuania: 345,000 people

9.       Luxembourg: 5,000 people

10.   Netherlands: 187,300 people

11.   Norway: 8,200 people

12.   Poland: 5,620,000 to 5,820,000 people

13.   Soviet Union (including: Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian murdered): 6,000,000 – 7,000,000 people

14.   Yugoslavia: 581,000 to 1,400,000 people