FYI @cpimspeak , since you are celebrating the death anniversary of Stalin, here are some figures that you should know:
On February 1989, a research paper by historian Aleksandrovich Medvedev published in the weekly tabloid “Argumenti i Fakti” stated that death toll directly attributable to Stalin is around 20 million lives (besides the estimated 20 million Soviet troops and civilians who died in the WWII), that makes a total tally of 40 million people dead.
Medevedev also listed few episodes:
a) 1 million imprisoned or exiled between 1927 to 1929;
b) 9 to 11 million peasants forced off their lands and another 2 to 3 million peasants arrested or exiled in the mass collectivization program;
c) 6 to 7 million killed by an artificial famine in 1932-1934;
d) 1 million exiled from Moscow and Leningrad in 1935;
e) 1 million executed during the ''Great Terror'' of 1937-1938; 4 to 6 million dispatched to forced labor camps;
f) 10 to 12 million people forcibly relocated during World War II; and
g) at least 1 million arrested for various “political crimes” from 1946 to 1953.
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Other historians say that Medvedev’s estimate of 20 million non-war (WWII) deaths under Stalin likely shows a lesser figure.
As for example , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (a famous literary figure) said the actual number of Stalin’s victims might have been as high as 60 million.
In his book, “Unnatural Deaths in the U.S.S.R.: 1928-1954,” I.G. Dyadkin estimated that the USSR saw 56 to 62 million "unnatural deaths" during that time, and 34 to 49 million deaths can be directly linked to Stalin.