It looks like something of ~7M from the famines, ~2M from Gulags, ~1M from executions, uncertain number from torture. Numbers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

It looks like something of ~7M from the famines, ~2M from Gulags, ~1M from executions, uncertain number from torture. Numbers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet... I'd say if famines are the cheapest way, many dictators with a genocide mind set would do that if possible.