Evidently, I should have used a different wording. My comment about casualties/occupation was in respect to Soviet casualties in taking Berlin and how through the cold war, western documentary producers and authors seemed to steadily up the count to the point where I was hearing numbers of over 1 million for a two week battle.
Post-Soviet era, I've never tried to determine if any researchers produced BoB casualty figures from Soviet archives.
Well, my comment was more of an observation about the east front and imminent Berlin situation. Seemed like the only ones that were concerned about the Soviet occupation were Churchill and Patton...and the Germans.
In 1993, Soviet General G. F. Krivosheev published a General Staff study of the losses of the Soviet armed forces in World War 2, and the losses were broken down by operation. The figures are not exact and the Soviets knew this, but the figures given are the best they can come up with. Also, the losses in 1941 were probably most inaccurate given the chaotic condition of the Soviet state in the wake of the German invasion. However, the figures for the latter part of the war should be reasonably accurate. A summary of Krivosheev’s study can be found as an appendix David Glantz’ “When Titans Clashed.”
The figures for the Berlin Operation, 16 April-8 May, 1945:
Troops engaged: 2,062,100
Killed or missing: 81,116
Wounded: 280,251
Total casualties: 361,367
Tanks lost: 1,997
Total casualties for the war, including the Manchurian Operation in August 1945:
Killed or missing (including POWs) 10,008,434
Wounded: 18,190,693
Total: 28,199,127