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This is a list about killings that were motivated by anticommunism. It does not include killings incidentally carried out by anticommunists (e.g. the Italo‐Ethiopian War). Despite its name, anticommunism normally affects not only communists but all other socialists as well, and often even just anybody sympathetic to socialism. Sometimes it also affects ethnicities, such as Chinese people, Jews, Mayans, and Serbs. As such, the actual tendency of the victims here is of minor relevance; what matters the most is the perpetrators’ motivations or causes.
Most of these killings were done directly; head‐to‐head. The only exceptions are fourfold: deaths caused by imperialist blockades or sanctions such as those on the RSFSR (1918–1921), Leningrad (early 1940s), the Republic of Cuba (1990s), the DPRK (1990s), and the FRY (1990s); deaths caused by explosives that detonated later than anticipated; deaths linked to nuclear weapons testing in the Cold War‐era United States; and deaths linked to comprehensive ‘decommunization’ programmes that antisocialists imposed on Easterners. Even if these indirect causes were subtracted, the total would still be well over fifty million. The total itself is composed using only the minimum of every statistic. Unspecified amounts, uncited guesses, and millions of hypothetical beings are excluded from this calculation.
1871, Paris: 18,000–30,000.[1] [2] [3] [4]
1873–1875, Spanish Republic: ‘at least several thousand’[5] (at least 10 of whom were in Alcoy during 1873[6])
1878, Berlin: 1–2.[7]
1880s, Poland: 7.[8]
1887, Chicago: 4–5.[9]
1891, Clichy: 1.[10]
1892, Montbrison: 1.[11]
1892, Poland: 46.[8]
1894, Paris: 2.[12]
1896, Montjuïc Castle: 5.[13]
1897, Vergara: 1.[14]
1905–1910, Russian Empire: over 15,000[15] (about 100 of whom were in Warsaw[16], 151–200 in Łódź,[16] [17] and possibly 400 in Moscow during 1905[18])
1906, Cananea: 13.[19]
1906, Poland: 16.[20]
1907, Kingdom of Romania: 419–11,000.[21]
1909, Barcelona: 104–600.[22] [23]
1910s–1930s, Kingdom of Italy: over 3,000[24] (41 of whom were in Albona during 1921,[25], 4 others of whom were desperate and rightfully frustrated socialists killed for attempted magnicide,[26] 11 of whom were in Turin during 1922,[27] and 5 of whom were in San Giovanni in Fiore during 1925[28])
1911, Empire of Japan: 12.[29]
1911, Sidney Street: 2.[30]
1912, Lawrence: 2.[31]
1916, Dublin: 16.[32]
1917, Wahnerheide: 2.[34]
1917–1923, Russia: 9,000,000[35] (over 1,000,000 of these were the direct result of civil warfare;[36] 1,000 were in Peregonovka during 1919[37] and 516 were in Russian Turkestan during 1917–1934.[36] An additional 20,000–300,000 of these were killed as part of the White Terror[38])
1917–1923, Spain: 200.[39]
1917–1923, United States of America: ∼165[40] (1 of whom was in Butte during 1917,[41] 1 of whom was in Centralia during 1919,[31] and more than 12 who were in Matewan during 1920–1922[40])
1918, Finland: 32,500[42] (1,200 of whom were in Vyborg[43])
1918–1919, Hungary: 11,666.[44]
1918–1919, Neocolonial Republic (Cuba): 7.[45]
1918–1923, Germany: thousands [46] [24] (1,000–1,500 of whom were in Berlin[24] [47] as well as 12 of whom were in Perlach during 1919,[48] over 1,000 were in Ruhr during 1920,[49] at least 354 during 1920–1922,[50] and 24 in Hamburg during 1923[24])
1919, Buenos Aires: 700.[51]
1919, Latvia: thousands (300 of whom were in Mitau[52] and 3,000 of whom were in Riga[52] [53])
1919–1921, Hungary: 500–5,000.[54]
1920s, Clevelândia: at least 6.[55]
1920s, Kingdom of Spain: over 100.[56]
1920–1922, Patagonia: 300–1,500.[57]
1921, Black Sea: 15.[58]
1922, Estonia: 1.[59]
1923, Bulgaria: 841.[60]
1923, Empire of Japan: 6,000–10,000.[61]
1923, Kraków: 18–30.[62]
1924, Estonia: 301.[59]
1924, Tatarbunary: unknown.
1925, Halle (Saale): 6.[63]
1926, Lithuania: 4.[64]
1927, Charlestown (Boston): 2.
1927–1950, China: millions.
300–10,000 of these were in Shanghai during 1927[65]
500 were in Huichang during the same year.[66]
800 were in a region west of Nanch’ang during the same year.[66]
2,000 were on their way to Canton during the same year.[67]
4,000–15,000 were in Canton (Guangzhou) during the same year.[68] [67]
300,000 were in south central China during 1928.[69]
143 were in Inner Manchuria during 1929.[36]
Over 1,000 were at Ching Kang Shan during the same year.[67]
About 4,000 were in the Kiangsi Province during 1931, and 10,000 later in the same year.[67]
1,000,000 were the fault of the Kuomintang and occurred during 1933–1934.[70]
8,000 were at Kuangch’ang during 1934.[67]
∼100,000 were during 1934–1937.[71]
584,267–900,000 were in China & Burma during 1937–1945.[72]
2,700,000 were due to the ‘Three Alls Policy’[73] enacted during the same period.[74]
1928, Ciénaga: 47–3,000.[75]
1929, Berlin: 33.[76]
1929, Lupeni: 16–58.[77]
1930s, German Reich: thousands[78] (5 of these were during January of 1930,[79] several during 1932,[80] 4 were in Altona during 1933,[81] and at least 22 were near Danzig during 1943–1945[82])
1930s–1970s, Dominican Republic: 50,000[83] (3,000 of whom died in 1960[84])
1930s–1990s, Guatemala: 100,000–200,000[85] [84] [86] [87] (at least 42,275 of whom died during 1981–1983 from racial motivations[88]).
1931, Ådalen: 5.[89]
1931, Argentina: 4.[90]
1931, Vallenar: at least 21.[91]
1932, El Salvador: 30,000.[92]
1932, People’s Republic of Mongolia: 1,800.[93]
1932, Trujillo: 1,000–5,000.[94]
1932–1939, Manchuria, Mongolia, & Primorsky Krai: 32,000[95] (236 of whom were near Lake Khasan during 1938[96] and 9,868 of whom were near the Khalkha River during 1939[97] [96])
1933, Casas Viejas: 26.[98]
1933, Grivița: 7.[99]
1934, Asturias: over 1,700.[100]
1934, Minneapolis: 2.[101]
1934, Paris: unknown. (Nine?)
1934, Ránquil: 477.[102]
1934, San Francisco: 2–9.[103]
1934, Toledo: 2.[104]
1935, Recife & Rio de Janeiro: at least 119.[105]
1936–1939, Spain: 275,000–305,000.[106]
White Terror: 150,000–400,000.[107]
1937, Chicago: at least 10.[108]
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