re: #638 Sergey Romanov

Scale is important, all battling Black Books aside.

I don’t know of any mass shootings. But then again: “Hermit Kingdom”.

From Wikipedia:

Kim’s hold on power was rather shaky. To strengthen it, he claimed that the United States deliberately spread diseases among the North Korean population. While Moscow and Beijing later determined that these charges were false, they continued to help spread this rumour for many years to come. He also conducted North Korea’s first large-scale purges in part to scare the people into accepting this false account. Unlike Stalin’s Great Purge, these took place without even the formalities of a trial. Victims often simply disappeared into the growing network of prison camps.[11]

These and other events just reek too much of the circumstances of the Great Terror. I suspect most killings to have occured in the era of expropriation (1948–1957), with all the “open battle” against “class enemies” and “collective indoctrination campaigns” being direct politicidal acts.