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‘In the US During the Red Scare, More People Were Repressed Than Under Stalin.’ False Claim by Petrovsky and Azarenok Fact-Checked
In the US during the McCarthy era, more people were killed than during the Stalinist repressions in the USSR. This claim was made by political scientist Piotr Petrovsky and media personality Grigory Azaryonok on a Belarussian state-run media outlet.