Today is the day of remembrance for the victims of political repression. A less and less popular date in modern official Russia, but therefore more and more significant. Repression was at the origin of the Soviet state. In fact, it started with repression. Initially, the "wrong", from the Bolshevik point of view, classes and social groups were subject to oppression: from the bourgeoisie to the Cossacks, from the intelligentsia to priests. During Stalin's time, repression reached its peak and began to spread to literally everyone, including not only party members, but even the executioners themselves. The catacomb of the 1930s cannot help but amaze with its bloody scale. In total, 3.8 million people were convicted in the Soviet Union according to anti-revolutionary articles, 800 thousand were sentenced to death, 4 million were subject to expropriation. About half of the dispossessed were sent to a special settlement or camps, the rest were simply deprived of their property by banning them from living in their settlement, but without exile to Siberia. Another 1.5 million deportees were members of national minorities. Thus, about 9.3 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union suffered directly for political reasons. This does not take into account the victims of the Red Terror in the civil war, since no one has determined their exact number due to the characteristics of terrorism itself. To these terrible figures we can also add the indirect victims of the Soviet policy. For example, the famine caused by the food surplus of 1921-22 - about 5 million people, the famine of 1932 caused by collectivization - from 3 to 7 million victims according to various researchers. To these we can safely add people who had to give up everything and flee the Bolsheviks to emigrate - 1.5-3 million people after the civil war (according to Pavel Polyan "Emigration: Who and When Left Russia in the 20th Century"). As a result, we get an absolutely monstrous picture, where the actions of the Bolsheviks collectively affected 20 to 25 million people.

Today is the day of remembrance for the victims of political repression. A less and less popular date in modern official Russia, but therefore more and more significant. Repression was at the origin of the Soviet state. In fact, it started with repression. Initially, the "wrong", from the Bolshevik point of view, classes and social groups were subject to oppression: from the bourgeoisie to the Cossacks, from the intelligentsia to priests. During Stalin's time, repression reached its peak and began to spread to literally everyone, including not only party members, but even the executioners themselves. The catacomb of the 1930s cannot help but amaze with its bloody scale. In total, 3.8 million people were convicted in the Soviet Union according to anti-revolutionary articles, 800 thousand were sentenced to death, 4 million were subject to expropriation. About half of the dispossessed were sent to a special settlement or camps, the rest were simply deprived of their property by banning them from living in their settlement, but without exile to Siberia. Another 1.5 million deportees were members of national minorities. Thus, about 9.3 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union suffered directly for political reasons. This does not take into account the victims of the Red Terror in the civil war, since no one has determined their exact number due to the characteristics of terrorism itself. To these terrible figures we can also add the indirect victims of the Soviet policy. For example, the famine caused by the food surplus of 1921-22 - about 5 million people, the famine of 1932 caused by collectivization - from 3 to 7 million victims according to various researchers. To these we can safely add people who had to give up everything and flee the Bolsheviks to emigrate - 1.5-3 million people after the civil war (according to Pavel Polyan "Emigration: Who and When Left Russia in the 20th Century"). As a result, we get an absolutely monstrous picture, where the actions of the Bolsheviks collectively affected 20 to 25 million people.