The number of deaths confirmed by CNN in all affected countries now stands at 80,427.

[dabbler]

Originally Posted by wum

You're right. Replace 'tragedy' with 'massacre'.

care to elaborate?

[dabbler]

so maybe you mean the entire soviet repression of their own people
from 1916-1933/5 or so?
cause the revolution you mentioned is otherwise known as the october revolution,
but even talking about the entire death toll, from the people imprisoned AND everyone who died
from famine , starvation etc, that number is around 20 million.
more people than that died in world war II

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[wum]

Originally Posted by dabbler

don't know where you've heard that, but all the records i can find say pretty much no one died in that revolution. i think the death toll was 1,500 or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik_Revolution

Not the Revolution itself, but cumulative death toll of what it started: The Age of Communism.