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How many Russians and people in the USSR died in World War 2? |
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Most experts put the figure at around 20 million Russian military & civilians killed.
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11,000,000 soldiers 6,700,000 civilians
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No definitive tally exists and many believe that Stalin made the numbers 'look lower' - I have read a figure as high as 27 million, this is the highest number that I have ever seen. Most historians believe that the Soviet Union was quite literally decimated, losing a full 10% of its population which was about 17-18 million total people lost.
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Over 11,000,000
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11,700,000 Soviets - including soldiers and civilians died during WWII
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Interesting question this, as it has been amended since the fall of the Soviet Empire, just like the Jewish deaths have been revised.
At the end of the war, the Soviets had won, and thus controlled the media and all news of the war from the eastern half of Europe. They reported that about 8 million soldiers had died in combat or of wounds suffered. Another 12 million civilians had died from all causes - cross fire, starvation, etc.
This total of 20 million dead made the Soviet peoples appear to have suffered terribly from the war, much more so than the western nations. Stalin used these losses as a propaganda tool and it was helpful in allowing the Soviets to expand their empire over Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, etc. after the war. After all, the Soviet people had suffered so much already, how could the west stand up them morally?
Since the collapse of the Evil Empire, it has become apparent that not 20 million Soviet peoples died, but around 25 million.
Why the deception? I suspect that with 20 million dead, Stalin had all the propaganda he needed to extort concessions from the west. However, had he revealed the true, 25 million dead, it would have been realized in the west than the Soviets were much weaker at wars end than they appeared. Regardless of the Soviet 'moral superiority due to losses' the west would not have allowed the Soviets to enslave and brutalize eastern Europe had they thought the Soviets were weak.
Thus the answer should be about 25,000,000 from all causes.
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27 millions, or recently the number 26.5 million has appeared. The best research shows somewhat over 8 million military losses, added to those are 3.3 or so POW's who died in German captivity, thus bringing the number to over 11 million, the rest were civilian deaths or partisan. There are further breakdowns, for example 2 million died of hunger on the Soviet 'homefront' etc.
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Only from June to September 1941, 3.3 million soldiers were killed in Barbarossa towards Moscow. 3.3 million in 3 months.
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Including soldiers, citizens, and everyone in between, over 20 million people died in World War II
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Around 25 million soviets died during that war. Also, Russians where treated a lot worse in the camps than the Western prisoners of war because USSR was not a signatory of the Geneva Convention. Almost all Russian prisoners of war died in German camps, mostly from starvation, (as did most German war prisoners in Russian camps).
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The figure that I have heard is 26.5 million Soviet dead. This includes 14,500,000 military dead. 3.3 million of these died in German camps. Keep in mind most estimates were low and this estimate takes into account that Soviet Authority did not want to reveal the true amount of soldiers killed as it would both deplete moral and reveal that the Soviet military was not as efficient as it seemed.
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Growing up in the Soviet Union we were thought in a history class about 22 million dead from 1941-1945
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