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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Altshuler, Mordechai (2014). "Jewish Combatants in the Red Army Confront the Holocaust". In Murav, Harriet; Estraikh, Gennady (eds.). Soviet Jews in World War II. Boston: Academic Studies Press. ISBN 9781618119261. Berkhoff, Karel C. (2009). ""Total Annihilation of the Jewish Population": The Holocaust in the Soviet Media, 1941–45".
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 1999 census estimated that there were only 29,000 Jews left in the country.
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]
Erlikman's estimates are based on sources published in the Soviet Union and Russia. [96] These numbers only include military deaths, total civilian deaths in Africa could amount up to 750,000. [95] Dying Soldier in a Trench (1915) by Willy Jaeckel Tanzania (1914 part of German East Africa): 20,000 Namibia (1914 known as German South-West Africa ...
In 1995, the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that civilian deaths in the occupied USSR, including Jews, at the hands of the Germans totaled 13.7 million dead (20% of the population of 68 million). The figure includes 7.4 million victims of Nazi genocide and reprisals, 2.2 million deaths of persons deported to Germany as forced labour, and ...