Did Stalin really say so?

[Mitsu Numano]

Dear Colleagues,
Could anybody tell me whether it is right to attribute the saying gA
single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistich to Stalin?
(See e.g., Bartlettfs Familiar Quotations).  Does anybody know any
authentic source?   If Ifm not mistaken, Adolf Eichmann reportedly said
something like that.  Or is this all folklore?

Mitsuyoshi Numano
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The University of Tokyo
mitsu at symphony.plala.or.jp

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