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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.
Soviet soldiers killed during the Toropets–Kholm Offensive, January 1942. Officially, roughly 8.6 million Soviet soldiers died in the course of the war, including millions of POWs. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the other victims persecuted and killed by the Nazis. [213] [214]
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.
Soviet soldiers killed during the Toropets–Kholm Offensive, January 1942. Even though it won the conflict, the war had a profound and devastating long-term effect in the Soviet Union. The financial burden was catastrophic: by one estimate, the Soviet Union spent $192 billion.
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).
10 paź 2022 · In total 26.6 million civilian and military personnel died in the Soviet republics. Civilians died at a three to two ratio versus military deaths. German Response. Civilians were killed extensively in retaliation to partisan activities.
21 gru 2018 · How many Soviet citizens died because of World War II? A new estimate of the Soviet war dead is 42 million. This figure, from Russian historian Igor’ Ivlev, is at least 15 million more than the 26–27 million previously estimated by Russian demographers Andreev, Darskii and Khar’kova and widely accepted for a quarter of a century.
