Most of the crimes of Communism have gone unexamined, due largely to bias among the intelligentsia.
Communist regimes turned mass crime into a full-blown system of government". Death toll totals 94 million, not counting the "excess deaths" (decrease of the population due to lower than-expected birth rates). The breakdown is as follows:
65 million in the People's Republic of China 20 million in the Soviet Union[3] 2 million in Cambodia 2 million in North Korea 1.7 million in Africa 1.5 million in Afghanistan 1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe 1 million in Vietnam[4] 150,000 in Latin America 10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power."(p. 4) Courtois claims that Commu