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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
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-Afghan War: 1979 1988 14,500 53,753 562,000 14,500 Casualties of the War in Afghanistan [5] First Chechen War: 1994 1996 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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).