Black Ribbon Day

In Honor of Black Ribbon Day (The day the European Union, Georgia, Canada and the United States remembers 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: 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