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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 ...
The majority of Soviet Jews murdered in the Holocaust were killed in the first nine months of the occupation during the so-called Holocaust by Bullets. Approximately 1.5 million Jews succeeded in fleeing eastwards into Soviet territory; it is thought that 1.152 million Soviet Jews had been murdered by December 1942. [11]
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 ...
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
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 ...
Jews executed by the Soviet Union ... (17 P) M. Soviet Jews in the military ... out of approximately 675 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The Nikolaev Massacre was a massacre which resulted in the deaths of 35,782 Soviet citizens, most of whom were Jews, during World War II, on September 16–30, 1941. It took place in and around the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv (also known by its Russian name, Nikolaev) and the neighboring city of Kherson in (current) southern Ukraine (then Soviet Union).