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This article was a translation of the Russian version; I rewrote it from scratch, adding much of the new information compiled from various sources. IgorSF 14:12, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
The article originally stated "tens of millions", which was reverted to "hundrends of thousands" with a comment of "impossible". While the precise number is not agreed upon by historians (different researchers place the number anywhere between half a million and 50 millions, a difference of two orders of magnitude), I don't see the reason to place the number at lowest range. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin#Number_of_victims. Even the extremely biased pro-stalinist source [1] quotes the number of executions for 1937-1938 alone at 680,000, which would quite easily extrapolate to at least more than a million for the entirerity of Stalin's rule.
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The article says that shooting was the only legal method of execution in the Soviet Union, although this was never formally codified. This is dubious: most likely, hanging was also used sometimes. The rumours surrounding the Doctors Plot allege that Stalin was planning to have several Jewish doctors hanged in Red Square in early 1953 (Solzhenitsyn, end of ch. 2 in pt 1 of The GULAG Archipelago and other sources), and this inmplies hanging being an accepted method. Drowning (by locking many people inside boats and barges and sinking them at sea) was also used, though this was half outside of the judicial system. 192.121.232.253 ( talk) 13:30, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
As of November 2018, there are 3 draft laws on the complete abolition of the death penalty in the State Duma of Russia. These bills are not rejected, but are under consideration. These are draft laws No. 99077740-2 on ratification of Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Regarding the abolition of the death penalty of April 28, 1983) and No. 99077736-2 on amending and supplementing some legislative acts of the Russian Federation (in part the abolition of the death penalty), introduced by the President of the Russian Federation on August 6, 1999 and draft law No. 110694-3 on amending and supplementing the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (on excluding the death penalty from the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), introduced by Duma members Sergei N. Yushenkov, Ye.T. Gaidar, B. B. Nadezhdin, I. M. Khakamada, B. E. Nemtsov, P. V. Krasheninnikov and others on July 4, 2001. The last action in the base of the Duma with these bills was 06.10.2016 to appoint a responsible committee.
I read in a biased source that the reason for the 1947 abolition was that the Soviet Union had a severe lack of manpower after the war, and criminals were more valuable as slaves in work camps than as corpses. Is that an extended opinion? The Abolition of the Death Penalty in the USSR in 1947: Domestic Political Conjuncture in a cursory look says that it was to avoid divisive investigations into who was a collaborator and hoping a compromise with the Western allies. -- Error ( talk) 09:18, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
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This article was a translation of the Russian version; I rewrote it from scratch, adding much of the new information compiled from various sources. IgorSF 14:12, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
The article originally stated "tens of millions", which was reverted to "hundrends of thousands" with a comment of "impossible". While the precise number is not agreed upon by historians (different researchers place the number anywhere between half a million and 50 millions, a difference of two orders of magnitude), I don't see the reason to place the number at lowest range. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin#Number_of_victims. Even the extremely biased pro-stalinist source [1] quotes the number of executions for 1937-1938 alone at 680,000, which would quite easily extrapolate to at least more than a million for the entirerity of Stalin's rule.
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The article says that shooting was the only legal method of execution in the Soviet Union, although this was never formally codified. This is dubious: most likely, hanging was also used sometimes. The rumours surrounding the Doctors Plot allege that Stalin was planning to have several Jewish doctors hanged in Red Square in early 1953 (Solzhenitsyn, end of ch. 2 in pt 1 of The GULAG Archipelago and other sources), and this inmplies hanging being an accepted method. Drowning (by locking many people inside boats and barges and sinking them at sea) was also used, though this was half outside of the judicial system. 192.121.232.253 ( talk) 13:30, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
As of November 2018, there are 3 draft laws on the complete abolition of the death penalty in the State Duma of Russia. These bills are not rejected, but are under consideration. These are draft laws No. 99077740-2 on ratification of Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Regarding the abolition of the death penalty of April 28, 1983) and No. 99077736-2 on amending and supplementing some legislative acts of the Russian Federation (in part the abolition of the death penalty), introduced by the President of the Russian Federation on August 6, 1999 and draft law No. 110694-3 on amending and supplementing the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (on excluding the death penalty from the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), introduced by Duma members Sergei N. Yushenkov, Ye.T. Gaidar, B. B. Nadezhdin, I. M. Khakamada, B. E. Nemtsov, P. V. Krasheninnikov and others on July 4, 2001. The last action in the base of the Duma with these bills was 06.10.2016 to appoint a responsible committee.
I read in a biased source that the reason for the 1947 abolition was that the Soviet Union had a severe lack of manpower after the war, and criminals were more valuable as slaves in work camps than as corpses. Is that an extended opinion? The Abolition of the Death Penalty in the USSR in 1947: Domestic Political Conjuncture in a cursory look says that it was to avoid divisive investigations into who was a collaborator and hoping a compromise with the Western allies. -- Error ( talk) 09:18, 2 June 2022 (UTC)