That is, for example, writes Zemskov V.N. Renowned historian and researcher of political repression
His contribution to obfuscate the issue of statistics made prisoners of the Gulag and Nikita Khrushchev, who, apparently, in order to provide pomasshtabnee own role liberator of victims of Stalinist repression, wrote in his memoirs: "... When Stalin died in the camps there were up to 10 million people ". [4] In fact, the January 1, 1953 contained in the Gulag prisoners 2468524: 1727970 - in camps and 740,554 - in the colonies (see Table 1.). In TsGAOR USSR kept copies of reports on the leadership of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs N.S.Hrusheva name contains the exact number of prisoners, including at the time of the death of Joseph Stalin. Consequently, Khrushchev was well informed about the true number of Gulag prisoners and exaggerated her four times intentionally.
Is that clear?
Khrushchev lied to her political ambitions
So do not talk about Katyn as an example of Soviet war crimes