[UnwashedPeasant]

Interesting. 25.3% of the population in Belarus was killed in war. Almost 3/4 of that was civilian.

[SSS Two]

How did Uzbekistan have 220,000 civilian casualties? It wasn’t invaded.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Stalin killed at least that many in his purges.

[PGR88]

The Soviet Union, like Marxists everywhere, sowed seeds of violence and death, and was simply reaping what it sowed.

[Larry381]

My uncle served in the Wehrmacht and fought in Russia between 1941-1944 when he was captured by the Soviets. Upon his release in 1950 he emigrated to the US.
I remember him telling me that every time the Russians recaptured a city or village in the Ukraine the NKVD would kill thousands of its own citizens.
Once his company counterattacked one of these newly liberated villages and found that the Russians had raped and murdered all the young Ukrainian girls who had worked in the kitchens and laundries for the Germans.
This was a major reason why whenever the Germans retreated (in south Ukraine) thousands of Russian and Ukrainian citizens left with them.
They would pay for that after the war.