The Great Purge by the NKVD during Stalin's time was directly responsible for the death of almost 1.5 million people. Those killed indirectly (starved to death

The Great Purge by the NKVD during Stalin's time was directly responsible for the death of almost 1.5 million people. Those killed indirectly (starved to death because of poor decision making by collectivist workers because the more intelligent people were jailed/killed) vastly exceeds that figure.