If you just look at the war years, then there were 600,000 deaths in the gulags versus 20 million in the war, roughly half of which were civilians. If you look

If you just look at the war years, then there were 600,000 deaths in the gulags versus 20 million in the war, roughly half of which were civilians. If you look at gulag and purge deaths for all of Stalin's reign, then, yes, that is a big number which could go as high as 30 million over 38 years that included an extended period of civil war. But that was then and the world has changed a lot since then. Especially in the Soviet Union after Stalin and in the former Soviet Republics. It would really take another world war to get back to that level of slaughter. Or global warming and famine.