Have communist governments killed more than 80 million people? It's May Day, while Communist regimes celebrated this day, others mourn. Specifically there are claims that communist governments have killed 80 to 100 million people in the last 100 years. Are communist governments directly responsible for over 80 million deaths? (directly means killed via execution, internment, work camps, etc. but would not count deaths theoretically due to a weakened economy) > Communism. In less than 100 years, Communism has claimed more than 100 million lives. Today, it continues to enslave one-fifth of the world's people.

The Black Book of Communism has communist government death totals at:

* U.S.S.R.: 20 million deaths
* China: 65 million deaths
* Vietnam: 1 million deaths
* North Korea: 2 million deaths
* Cambodia: 2 million deaths
* Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
* Latin America: 150,000 deaths
* Africa: 1.7 million deaths
* Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths



This totals just over 94 million. These are the deaths committed by government agents against citizens of their own country.

This source estimates the Chinese number between 50 and 78 million deaths and the Soviet number at 23 million which is similar in magnitude to the source above.