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V. E. Korol estimated overall Soviet war dead at 46 million including military dead of 23 million. He claimed that the official figure of 8.7 million military dead was "groundless", based on battle accounts from across the Eastern Front.
9 sie 2024 · The Soviet Union suffered the highest number of fatalities of any single nation, with estimates mostly falling between 22 and 27 million deaths.
World War II, the deadliest and most destructive war in human history, claimed between 40 and 50 million lives, displaced tens of millions of people, and cost more than $1 trillion to prosecute. The financial cost to the United States alone was more than $341 billion (approximately $5.8 trillion in 2023 dollars when adjusted for inflation).
Civilian deaths totaled 50–55 million. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21–25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union.
23 lut 2023 · 1. Soviet Union - 24,000,000. Iconic photo of a Soviet officer leading his soldiers into battle against the invading German army, 12 July 1942, in Soviet Ukraine. On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Known as Operation Barbarossa, this campaign saw the German army split into three main groups.
World War II Statistics. Statistics that defined the great second conflict of the 20th Century. World War 2 left no part of the world untouched - North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and all oceans between were involved to one extent or the other.
See estimates for worldwide deaths, broken down by country, in World War II.
