In the Caucasian republics, 100,000 Azerbaijanis, 30,000 Georgians, and tens of thousands of Armenians were imprisoned, tortured, or killed under Stalin, with Armenia's prisons so full at some points that basements of government buildings were converted into makeshift jails.
1992, Richard Nixon, “The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, page 57