7006119331500000000♠1,193,315 7005712000000000000♠712,000[232] 7006200000000000000♠2,000,000[233] Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries in China People's Republic of China 1950 1951 The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (Chinese: 镇压反革命; pinyin: zhènyā fǎn gémìng; literally: "suppressing counterrevolutionaries" or abbreviated as Chinese: 鎮反; pinyin: zhènfǎn) was the first political campaign launched by the People's Republic of China designed to eradicate opposition elements, especially former Kuomintang (KMT) functionaries accused of trying undermine the new Communist government.[232] 7006107785000000000♠1,077,850 7005681692000000000♠681,692[234] 7006170423000000000♠1,704,230[235] Great Purge in the Soviet Union Soviet Union 1936 1938 The Great Purge or Great Terror was a period of intense political repression in the Soviet Union including execution (especially through open air shootings) and forced labor through the Gulag system.