Russia's opposition leader and most prominent Putin critic Alexei Navalny "lost consciousness" and died, Russian officials have said. Navalny was serving a prison sentence in a remote Arctic penal colony.
The Great Purge - i.e. just the purge under Stalin in the mid-1920’s - is estimated to have killed around (some estimate more than) a million people. No separation necessary, we aren’t talking about disastrous policies and wars.
This is to say nothing of the Russian civil war (tens of millions dead) or other leaders’ at the national and more local levels engaging in their own political purges.
The Great Purge - i.e. just the purge under Stalin in the mid-1920’s - is estimated to have killed around (some estimate more than) a million people. No separation necessary, we aren’t talking about disastrous policies and wars.
This is to say nothing of the Russian civil war (tens of millions dead) or other leaders’ at the national and more local levels engaging in their own political purges.