[wideawake]

Of the 27M Russian casualties in WWII, how amny were killed by Germans and how many were either murdered outright by Stalin's goons or intentionally starved to death by Stalin's goons?

The ratio is probably 1:2 Stalin.

[mainepatsfan]

A lot of Soviet soldiers were killed because of Stalin's idiotic military decisions. Luckily for Uncle Joe the Austrian Corporal wasn't any better.

[dfwgator]

And how many killed were brave Russian soldiers who fought, and who's only mistake was seeing part of the West, and for that crime, got shipped to Siberia upon their return to the Motherland?

[Skooz]

The best scholarship holds that Stalin killed 40 milion of his own people. That does not include war casualties.

[Little Bill]

Trying to get real numbers is hard. I war game as a hobby and I got stuck commanding the Second SS Panzer Corps at Kursk. I did some reading and story didn't ring true, so I did an FOIA for the Morning reports and a friend translated them, don't believe a lot about what you read, these reports were not released until 1986 and give a different view of the Battle.