The existing assumption of facts I have going into this is that from a period between 1918 and 1922 an estimated 50,000 to 200,000 people were executed by the Bolsheviks. What isnt clear to me is was this just mopping up what was left of the Whites and couter-revolutionaries, or was any dissent against the Bolsheviks liable to put you in the line of fire? Was the high death count justified or not? Thoughts?
What's done is done. Purges are going to be inevitable. Just look at what's happening in Burkina Faso. Sankara was betrayed by a man who he thought was his friend, so the current president Ibrahim Traore is now ruthlessly purging people who are plotting against him. Traore even referenced Sankara's betrayal in a recent interview and how he will not make the same mistake Sankara did.