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@Riverside
i think it's a mistake to believe there "must" be records of illegal war crimes from an era and situation where documentation was less likely, and where the records themselves would rely on people conducting repression-based executions
if anecdotes of people who were alive in the era aren't sufficient, you might not find what you're looking for
Well, the Soviets are known for holding extremely accurate of such repressions within the USSR, the soviet archive on the Great Terror is universally recognized as the best source of information on the Great Terror itself, and those events are simultaneous. Even regarding the repression of some anarchists in Barcelona, the Soviets conserved the intelligence provided the spy Harro Schulze-Boysen of a Nazi plot to promote an anarchist insurrection in Barcelona during the war. I can understand it's not easy to give exact figures, but at least there must be estimates that can give information on the order of magnitude. Regardless, thanks for your time and good faith
one will depend on their trust of States in the abstract & in particular pertaining to statistics and their legitimacy
if that is true of the Soviets, it's no guarantee that the Spanish kept similarly thorough documentation. i could also point to the tendency of pro-state socialists/communists to downplay those same statistics/repression
i don't know about stats for the Spanish civil war repression but they might be out there, tho estimates might come from anecdotal reports too
I edited my comment as you were replying, just letting you know.
Well, hopefully I can encounter some numerical sources. I understand that there's good intention behind anecdotal evidence, but I've further explained in the comment above to which you replied why it's not enough for me to form my opinion fully.
@Riverside
i can understand why you'd rather rely on material sources like documented statistics
on the other hand, we simply only have to go back a few hundred years or so and all we have are inexact estimates for almost anything
the historical record is not as exact as we would like it to be, even in the modern era