Quote Originally Posted by 44 Canon
Here is a pretty accurate figure. Note that this is only the gendercide death toll. It doesn't include the military massacres and other stuff he had going.

Arrests, 1937-1938 - about 7 million
Executed - about 1 million
Died in camps - about 2 million
In prison, late 1938 - about 1 million
In camps, late 1938 - about 8 million


That figure was built on all of the finest and latest historical evidence, leaving a death toll of roughly 20 million.
One thing contradicts to this "pretty acurate figure" - demography. Show me this 20 million on this graph :

Population of Russia in 20 century.