Democide - that's another word

The league table of the worlds top ten of democides dating back to the time of Genghis Khan were responsible for the deaths of over 189 million people - How odd that out of that 189 million four Communist leaders account for over 121 million of them - Mr Carroll tells us that the deaths under Stalin were down to:

"the gross mismanagement of the collectivisation plan and the move to industrialisation."

The people Stalin deliberately targeted and intentionally wiped out were "Kulak" Farmers (In the UK they were the equivalent of the Yeoman or Free land owning farmers) The unfortunate side effect of wiping these people out, that Stalin & Co were perfectly well aware of was that in destroying them for political reasons he deliberately rid his country of the only people who knew how to farm the land efficiently, the result was food shortages and famine - not once in all the time that the communists ruled Russia was it ever self sufficient and able to feed itself - such was not the case under the Tsars.