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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.
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. [134] World War II military deaths in Europe by theater and by year.
Katyusha rocket launcher. BM-13 Katyusha multiple rocket launcher, based on a ZIS-5 truck. The Katyusha (Russian: Катю́ша, IPA: [kɐˈtʲuʂə] ⓘ) is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Multiple rocket launchers such as these deliver explosives to a target area more intensively than ...
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 ...
Dodge WC series were one of the most popular vehicles during World War II. These U.S. military four-wheel drive vehicles (weapons carriers) were supplied to USSR under a Lend-Lease program mainly in two variants – with or without front winch (WC52 and WC51). With a payload of 750 kg (3/4 t), these 4 х 4 off-road vehicles with two seater open ...
Grigori F. Krivosheev concludes: "Losses during strategic operations accounted for 61.48% of small-arms losses, 65.52% of tank and SP gun losses, 56.89% of gun and mortar losses and 58.6% of combat aircraft losses during the war. On average 11,000 small arms, 68 tanks, and 30 aircraft were lost each day.
The Soviet Armed Forces suffered 8,700,000 military deaths and missing in action. [22] The number of Czech partisan deaths was 2,170 [23] The Czechoslovak military units on Eastern front lost 4,570 as dead. [24] The Polish resistance movement suffered 100,000 deaths. [25] The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000.