Quote (ofthevoid @ Dec 15 2023 12:22am)
No idea. If it came out that 50k dead was the number I wouldn’t be shocked
It's always like that with Russia lol
Stalin in 1946: "As a result of the German invasion, the Soviet Union irrevocably lost in battles with the Germans, as well as thanks to the German occupation and the deportation of Soviet people to German penal servitude, about seven million people."
Khrushchev said in 1961: "The war claimed two tens of millions of Soviet lives."
Brezhnev added in 1965: "Over 20 million people."
Gorbachev shouted in 1990: "The war claimed nearly 27 million Soviet lives."
On February 14, 2017, at a hearing in the State Duma, State Duma Deputy Nikolai Zemtsov, co-chairman of the Immortal Regiment of Russia movement, spoke on the documentary basis of the People's Project "Establishing the Fates of Missing Defenders of the Fatherland":
“According to the declassified data of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, the losses of the Soviet Union in the Second World War are 41 million 979 thousand, not 27 million, as previously thought. This is almost one third of the modern population of the Russian Federation.
In 60-80 years we will find out the true numbers
This post was edited by Uber23 on Dec 14 2023 05:48pm