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AnswerAbout Three million died there between the time Lenin established them

and Stalin's death in 1953.

I wrote my Phd on this and you will find that the figure is closer to 40 million. Some estimates even go as high as 60 million.

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Estimates of the number of people who died in the GULAGs, Soviet forced labor camps, vary widely. Historians' estimates range from 1 to 2 million to more than 5 million deaths. The exact number remains a topic of debate among scholars.

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