Maybe 10 million combat deaths; the 20 million figure for total Soviet dead is way old - and a product of Soviet propaganda. The actual figure, released after the USSR fell and the archives were opened up, was about 26 million. They wanted to hide their weakness, which was that they were utterly exhausted and bled white.
Correct. I was just estimating casualties by the Red Army.
The actual numbers of civilians that starved, froze or were killed outright by German AND Russian Fighting forces were in the tens of millions.
>>>>>>America would lose slightly more than 400,000 soldiers (killed or missing) and almost no civilians during World War II and the USSR, depending on which historian you believe, would lose at least 11,000,000 soldiers (killed and missing) as well as somewhere between 7,000,000 and 20,000,000 million of its civilian ...
Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College - WWII Soviet Experience
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