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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 27,000,000 both civilian and military from all war-related causes, [1] although exact figures are disputed. A figure of 20 million was considered official during the Soviet era.
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater Soviet soldiers killed during the Toropets–Kholm Offensive, January 1942. Officially, roughly 8.6 million Soviet soldiers died in the course of the war, including millions of POWs. Einsatzgruppen murder Jewish civilians outside Ivanhorod, Ukraine, 1942.
On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II. The Soviets invaded eastern Poland on 17 September. [2] Following the Winter War with Finland, the Soviets were ceded territories by Finland. This was followed by annexations of the Baltic states and ...
Military Dead Civilian Dead Total Dead Note Polish Soviet War: 1918 1919 60,000 60,000 Rummel p 55 [1] Soviet invasion of Poland: 17 September 1939 6 October 1939 3,000 3,000 Sanford pp. 20–24 Sanford, George [2] World War 2: 1939 1945 8,668,400 15,900,000 8,668,400 Krivosheev, G. F [3] Soviet-Japanese War: 7 August 1945 2 September 1945 ...
Belgian total casualties were 23,350 including 6,500 KIA. Dutch total casualties were 9,779 including 2,100 KIA. Civilian deaths totaled 13,000 in France 13,000 Belgium and 2,000 in the Netherlands. [1] A 2000 study by the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office estimated total German military dead at 50,000 in May and June 1940. [3]
Pages in category "Soviet military personnel killed in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 366 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk was the single largest battle in the history of warfare. [ 41 ][ 42 ][ 43 ] It ranks only behind the Battle of ...
21,200 aircraft, of which 10,600 were lost to combat [17] 20,500 tanks destroyed [25] Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during ...