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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.
Russian sources list Axis prisoner of war deaths of 580,589 in Soviet captivity based on data in the Soviet archives (Germany 381,067; Hungary 54,755; Romania 54,612; Italy 27,683; Finland 403, and Japan 62,069). [284] However, some western scholars estimate the total at between 1.7 and 2.3 million. [285]
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.
7 Georgians hijack Aeroflot Flight 6833 in hopes of escaping the Soviet Union. The siege ended with Soviet forces storming the plane and resulting in the deaths of 3 passengers, 2 crew members and 3 hijackers. The remaining hijackers were executed. Jeltoqsan massacre: 1986, December 16 – 19 Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR: 168-1,000 [93]
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 ...
In 1979, there were 135,400 Jews in Belarus; a decade later, 112,000 were left. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Belarusian independence saw most of the community, along with the majority of the former Soviet Union's Jewish population, leave for Israel (see Russian immigration to Israel in the 1990s). [8]
The Russian Civil War pogroms shocked world Jewry and rallied many Jews to the Red Army and the Soviet regime, strengthening the desire for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people. [15] In August 1919 the Soviet government arrested many rabbis, seized Jewish properties, including synagogues, and dissolved many Jewish communities. [ 17 ]