In total, communist (Marxist-Leninist) regimes murdered nearly 148 million people from 1917 to 1987. For a perspective on this incredible toll, note that all domestic and foreign wars during the twentieth century killed in combat around 41 million.

— Rudolph Rummel The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

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