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(16,184 posts)For Holodomor alone, anywhere from between 2.4 and 7.5 million. For Stalin's Purges, anywhere from between 650,000 and 1.2 million. For Katyn, 22,000. For the March deportations, at least 94,000. About 3,000 killed in Hungary in 1956. Nearly 35,000 killed during the Battle of Grozny. Anywhere from 850,000 to 1.5 million civilians in Afghanistan.
For comparison, the Iraq War, which you seem to think killed every living human being on the face of the planet, is estimated between 110,000 and 650,000 civilian deaths; at the most liberal estimate, that's fewer than the most conservative estimate for how many of its own civilians Russia killed during the Purge.
For even more context, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan killed at least twice as many civilians as the US invasion of Afghanistan and invasion of Iraq combined.