VOLKOGONOV: 21 MILLION WERE IN STALIN’S CAMPS

GeneralDmitri Volkogonov, a leading historian of the Soviet period, toldInterfax August 4 that his latest findings show that 21.5 millionpeople were sent to labor camps from the 1929 agricultural collectivizationuntil Stalin’s death in 1953. According to Volkogonov’s estimates,approximately one third of that number were executed soon afterinternment, another third died while in detention, and the survivingthird returned home in 1953-56, many of them to die soon afterward.Volkogonov, who according to press reports is fighting cancer,expressed the hope that it should eventually become possible toestablish a complete roster of the prisoners in the Soviet campsystem.

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