How accurate is the 100 million+ death toll that many people have claimed that communist countries and leaders have been responsible for? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

How accurate is the 100 million+ death toll that many people have claimed that communist countries and leaders have been responsible for?

by MaggieLinzer

i’ve heard a lot of people both argue for and against this claim, and was hoping I could get more clarity on how true it is here.

TankArchives

Not to discourage further discussion, but this claim made in the Black Book of Communism was analyzed in a previous AskHistorians answer by u/ImNotMarshalZhukov.