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This contained official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953), [8] around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag, [9] [10] some 390,000 [11] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s, [12] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories. [13]
We do know that the demographic estimate of excess deaths was 26.6 million plus an additional 11.9 million natural deaths of persons born before the war and 4.2 million children born during the war that would have occurred in peacetime, bringing the total dead to 42.7 million. At this time the actual total number of deaths caused by the war is ...
7–20 million [9] 1369–1405 Timurid Empire vs. various states in Asia Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia An Lushan rebellion: 13 million [17] 754–763 Tang Dynasty and Uyghur Khaganate vs. Yan Dynasty: China Thirty Years' War: 4–12 million [18] 1618–1648 Anti-Imperial Alliance vs. Imperial Alliance Europe Spanish conquest of Mexico ...
The Soviets repulsed the important German strategic southern campaign and, although 2.5 million Soviet casualties were suffered in that effort, it permitted the Soviets to take the offensive for most of the rest of the war on the Eastern Front. [135] World War II military deaths in Europe by theater and by year.
Official figures put the total number of documentable executions during the years 1937 and 1938 at 681,692, [172] [173] in addition to 116,000 deaths in the Gulag, [1] and 2,000 unofficially killed in non-article 58 shootings; [1] whereas the total estimate of deaths brought about by Soviet repression during the Great Purge ranges from 950,000 ...
The breakdown of the number of deaths is given as follows: 65 million in the People's Republic of China; 20 million in the Soviet Union; 2 million in Cambodia; 2 million in North Korea; 1.7 million in Ethiopia; 1.5 million in Afghanistan; 1 million in the Eastern Bloc; 1 million in Vietnam; 150,000 in Latin America
According to Snyder, "the Germans deliberately killed about 11 million noncombatants, a figure that rises to more than 12 million if foreseeable deaths from deportation, hunger, and sentences in concentration camps are included. For the Soviets during the Stalin period, the analogous figures are approximately 6 million and 9 million." [3]
The People's Republic of China puts its war dead at 20 million, [10] while the Japanese government puts its casualties due to the war at 3.1 million. [11] An estimated 7–10 million people died in the Dutch , British , French and US colonies in South and Southeast Asia , mostly from war-related famine.