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Dead Soviet civilians near Minsk, Belarus, 1943 Kiev, 23 June 1941 A victim of starvation in besieged Leningrad suffering from muscle atrophy in 1941. World War II losses of the Soviet Union were about 27 million both civilian and military from all war-related causes, [1] although exact figures are disputed. A figure of 20 million was ...
Civilian Dead Total Dead Note Polish Soviet War: 1918 1919 60,000 Unknown 60,000 Rummel p 55 [1] Soviet invasion of Poland: 17 September 1939 6 October 1939 3,000 20,000 3,000 Sanford pp. 20–24 Sanford, George [2] World War 2: 1939 1945 8,668,400 14,685,593 15,900,000 24 568 400 Krivosheev, G. F [3] Soviet-Japanese War: 7 August 1945 2 ...
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
Total Soviet military casualties on the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts during the siege were at least 1.5 million, including 620,000 dead or captured. Furthermore, the siege cost the lives of about one million Soviet civilians in Leningrad and prevented the city's industries from participating fully in the Soviet war effort until mid-1944. [100]
Over two weeks drunken Russian troops under the command of General Vladimir Shamanov went on the rampage after taking the town from the forces of Akhmed Zakayev. Staropromyslovski massacre: December 1999 – January 2000 Grozny, Chechnya: 38–56 Summary executions of at least 38 confirmed civilians by Russian federal soldiers in Grozny, Chechnya.
Soviet casualties totaled around 27 million. [181] Although figures vary, the Soviet civilian death toll probably reached 18 million. [181] Millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians disappeared into German detention camps and slave-labor factories, while millions more suffered permanent physical and mental damage. [181]
Operation Barbarossa [g] was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on 22 June 1941, during World War II. More than 3.8 million Axis troops invaded the western Soviet Union along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with the main goal of capturing territory up to a line between ...
Soviet–Afghan War: 1–3 million [44] 1979–1989 Soviet Union and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan vs. Afghan mujahideen: Afghanistan Delhi Conquest of North India: 0.5–3 million [45] 1300–1310 Delhi Sultanate vs. North Indian States Indian subcontinent Bangladesh Liberation War: 0.3–3 million [46] [47] 1971