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Rummel's counts 43 million deaths due to democide inside and outside the Soviet Union during Stalin's regime.

This is much higher than an often quoted figure of 20 million.

Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

Moreover, the Holodomor that killed 5 million in 1932 – 1934 is also not included.