HSRP-673
Governments killed many millions of people in the twentieth century, and millions more died in famines under such regimes; the totals across all regimes are contested
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
Governments killed many millions of people in the twentieth century, and millions more died in famines under such regimes; the totals across all regimes are contested
Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC60 (brief item AH60). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "ESTABLISHED as history; the totals across all regimes — CONTESTED". Figures as each source states them. The Holodomor range in other sources runs from 3.5 to 10 million (EBSCO); Britannica gives lower bounds only.
3. What it rests on
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USHMM: "Jews were the primary victims—six million were murdered." [SRC-1253]
Sources: SRC-1253 -
Yale Genocide Studies Program: "The Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population), was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century." [SRC-1254]
Sources: SRC-1254 -
Britannica (Applebaum): "Between 1931 and 1934 at least 5 million people perished of hunger all across the U.S.S.R." [SRC-1255]
Sources: SRC-1255 -
EBSCO (Wilson): "Scholarly estimates of the number of deaths range from a low of 15 million to a high of 50 million" [SRC-1256]
Sources: SRC-1256
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
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SRC-1253 · PRIORITY · Mission and History — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (n.d.)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S156. CITATION as the block gives it (S156): United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Mission and History". READ AT: https://www.ushmm.org/learn/about-us/mission-and-history SCOPE PAGE + H; PRIMARY.
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SRC-1254 · PRIORITY · Cambodian Genocide Program — Yale University, Genocide Studies Program (n.d.)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S157. CITATION as the block gives it (S157): Yale University, Genocide Studies Program, "Cambodian Genocide Program". READ AT: https://macmillan.yale.edu/gsp/cambodian-genocide-program SCOPE PAGE + H; PRIMARY.
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SRC-1255 · PRIORITY · “Holodomor”, Encyclopaedia Britannica — Applebaum, Anne (2026)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S158. CITATION as the block gives it (S158): Anne Applebaum, "Holodomor," Encyclopaedia Britannica (last updated 11 October 2026). READ AT: https://www.britannica.com/event/Holodomor SCOPE PAGE + H; SECONDARY (reference work).
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SRC-1256 · PRIORITY · Great Leap Forward famine — Wilson, Richard L. (EBSCO Research Starters) (2022)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S159. CITATION as the block gives it (S159): Richard L. Wilson, "Great Leap Forward famine," EBSCO Research Starters (2022). READ AT: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/great-leap-forward-famine SCOPE PAGE + H; SECONDARY (reference work).
5. Counter-evidence
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EBSCO calls the Chinese range "a measure so imprecise as to give a range of deaths that could be off by a factor of 3 or as much as 300 percent." [SRC-1256]
Sources: SRC-1256
6. Why this grade
ESTABLISHED as history; the totals across all regimes — CONTESTED
The register defines ESTABLISHED as: Supported directly by primary texts or published findings.
7. Correction history
No correction events are recorded. The entry's status is ACTIVE: no later entry amends, supersedes or withdraws it.
8. Related observations
No related observations are linked in the register.
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- Sovereign Citizens“Governments killed many millions of people in the twentieth century, and millions more died in famines under such regimes — ESTABLISHED as history; the totals across all regimes — CONTESTED”
Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /sovereign-citizens.
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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