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A few years before the Holocaust, the Jewish population of the Soviet Union (excluding Western Ukraine and the Baltic states that were not part of the Soviet Union then) stood at over 5 million, most of whom were Ashkenazic as opposed to Sephardic, with some Karaite minorities. It is estimated that more than half died directly as a result of ...
Altshuler, Mordechai (2014). "Jewish Combatants in the Red Army Confront the Holocaust". In Murav, Harriet; Estraikh, Gennady (eds.). Soviet Jews in World War II. Boston: Academic Studies Press. ISBN 9781618119261. Berkhoff, Karel C. (2009). ""Total Annihilation of the Jewish Population": The Holocaust in the Soviet Media, 1941–45".
Russian sources include Jewish Holocaust deaths among total civilian dead. Gilbert put Jewish losses at one million within 1939 borders; Holocaust deaths in the annexed territories numbered an additional 1.5 million, bringing total Jewish losses to 2.5 million. [92] Civilian losses include deaths in the siege of Leningrad.
Demographic data for Russian Empire, Soviet Union and Post-Soviet states Jews Year Jewish population (including Mountain Jews) Notes 1914 More than 5,250,000 Russian Empire 1926 [135] 2,672,499 First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union. A result of border change (secession of Poland and union of Bessarabia with Romania), emigration and ...
According to the Russian Academy of Sciences the Soviet Union suffered 26.6 million deaths (1941–1945) during World War II, including an increase in infant mortality of 1.3 million. Total war-loss figures include territories annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939–1945.
Although calculation is difficult, Jewish scholars estimate a total of 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews were killed, leaving only 40% of the Jewish population prior to the war. [13] In 1941, when Western Ukraine was taken over by Germany , Jews were put into ghettos and later sent to death camps where they were murdered.
Soviet-Japanese War: 7 August 1945 2 September 1945 9,780 19,562 9,780 "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler" [4] Soviet-Afghan War: 1979 1988 14,500 53,753 562,000 14,500 Casualties of the War in Afghanistan [5] First Chechen War: 1994 1996 14,000 52,000 14,000 Casualty Figures Jamestown Foundation - first Chechen War [6 ...
15,000+ (figure of deaths due to execution only) Total of 240,000 [1] rebels and civilians killed by communist forces. Katyn massacre: April–May 1940 Katyn, Tver: 10,702 Polish military officers and intelligentsia POWs 10,702 of the 22,000 victims of the Soviet-perpetrated massacre were murdered in Tver and Katyn. [2] Medvedev Forest massacre