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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.
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]
After the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the NKVD troops were supposed to evacuate political prisoners into the interior of the Soviet Union, but the hasty retreat of the Red Army, the lack of transportation and other supplies and the general disregard for legal procedures often meant that the prisoners were ...
Einsatzgruppen murdering Jews in Soviet Ukraine, 1942. The Holocaust saw the genocide of at least 2 million Soviet Jews by Nazi Germany, [1] Romania, [2] and local collaborators [3] during the German-Soviet War, part of the wider World War II.
10,702 of the 22,000 victims of the Soviet-perpetrated massacre were murdered in Tver and Katyn. [2] Medvedev Forest massacre: 11 September 1941 Medvedev Forest, near Oryol: 157 Soviet massacre of political prisoners Rostov-on-Dov massacre 1942–1943 Zmievskaya Balka, Rostov-on-Don 27,000 Jews and other Soviet Civilians
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).
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 September 1945 9,780 19,562 9,780 "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler" [4] Soviet ...
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 ...