text: Stalin literally starved millions of his citizens to death, withholding and confiscating grains and other food. These were his ordinary citizens, most commonly the peasants, so religious denomination had nothing to do with it. In that time frame and location, most would have been greek orthodox. \n\nSome stats:\n\nEarly researchers of the number killed by Stalin's regime were forced to rely largely upon anecdotal evidence, and their estimates range as high as 60 million.[13][16] But with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, hard evidence from the Soviet archives finally became available, and such estimates became more difficult to sustain. For example, the archives record that about 800,000 prisoners were executed (for either political or criminal offences) under Stalin, while another 1.7 million died of privation[citation needed] or other causes in the Gulags and some 389,000 perished during kulak resettlement - a total of about 3 million victims.\n\nThus, while some archival researchers have posited the number of victims of Stalin's repressions to be no more than about 4 million in total [15][16][17], others believe the number to be considerably higher. Russian writer Vadim Erlikman,[18] for example, has made the following estimations: Executions 1.5 million, Gulag 5 million, Deportations 1.7 million (out of 7.5 million deported), and POW's and German civilians 1 million, for a total of about 9 million victims of repression.\n\nSome have also included the 6 to 8 million victims of the 1932-33 famine .[18][19][20] But again historians differ, this time as to whether or not the famine victims were purposive killings - as part of the campaign of repression against kulaks - or whether they were simply unintended victims of the struggle over forced collectivization.\n\n\nEDIT: As for Stalin being a jew, you are quite incorrect.\n\n"Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia, Russian Empire to Vissarion Dzhugashvili and Ekaterina Geladze. In 1913, he adopted the name Stalin, which is derived from the Russian stal’ (Russian: сталь) for "steel". His mother was born a serf."