How did Uzbekistan have 220,000 civilian casualties? It wasn’t invaded.
“How did Uzbekistan have 220,000 civilian casualties? It wasn’t invaded.”
A Wikipedia article has a discussion of the unreliability of the various studies used to determine the Soviet casualties, especially those studies which were adopted as the official report/s of the Soviet Government. Most independent sources cite major inconsistencies in the census records and assorted other records which tend to indicate the Soviet war dead being 2 to 2.5 times what the official Soviet reports claimed.
With respect to the civilian casualties in Uzbekistan, the Wikipedia article has this to say:
The source of the figures on the table is Vadim Erlikman. Poteri narodonaseleniia v XX veke : spravochnik. Moscow 2004. ISBN 5-93165-107-1 pp. 23–35 Erlikman notes that these figures are his estimates. This table includes civilian losses in Transcaucasian and Central Asian republics due to famine and disease caused by wartime shortfalls estimated by Vadim Erlikman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union
In other words, millions killed by Stalin were blamed on the Germans.