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Human rights in the Soviet Union

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The Soviet genocide of millions of civilians before and during World War II was designed to eliminate opposition to the Soviet Union's totalitarian rule.

"During the war the Soviets committed genocide against at least nine of their distinct ethnic- linguistic sub-nations, including ethnic Germans, ethnic Greeks, Crimean Tatars, and Balkars."

The Soviets killed 5 million to 8 million people in Ukraine by starving them (see genocide).