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Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin's regime were 20 million or higher. [5] [6] [7] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives was declassified and researchers were allowed to study it.
The crowds coming to view the body were so large and disorganised that many people were killed in a crowd crush. [568] At the funeral on 9 March, attended by hundreds of thousands, Stalin was laid to rest in Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square. [569]
Joseph Stalin biographer Stephen Kotkin supports a similar view, stating that while "there is no question of Stalin's responsibility for the famine" and many deaths could have been prevented if not for the "insufficient" and counterproductive Soviet measures, there is no evidence for Stalin's intention to kill the Ukrainians deliberately. [146]
On the day of the funeral, of the hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens visiting the capital to pay their respects, at least 109 were later acknowledged to have died in a human crush. [1] [2] Stalin's body was embalmed and interred in Lenin's Mausoleum until 1961, when it was moved to the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
Robert Conquest, however, based on demographic research concluded that by 1939, 11 - 13 million people died [1]. Similar results were published by the Ukrainian court, which found that only 9 [2] million people died in the entire USSR during collectivization, and the committee of Ukrainian historians stated that 10 million [3].
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If each of these 1100 brigades searched 100 households, and a peasant household had five people, then they took food from 550,000 people, out of 20 million, or about 2-3 percent." [44] Great purge: 1936–1938 Nationwide 700,000 [46] [47] –1,200,000 [48] Ordered by Joseph Stalin. Finnish Operation of the NKVD: 1937–1938 Nationwide 8,000 ...
People of Vinnytsia searching for relatives among the victims of the Vinnytsia massacre exhumed from a mass grave in 1943. In the final years of the USSR and after its dissolution in 1991, killing fields and burial sites were uncovered and memorialised across the countries of the former Soviet Union. [ 5 ]