World War II casualties of the Soviet Union | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-16

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00:02:16 1 Military losses
00:02:26 1.1 Krivosheev's analysis
00:09:24 1.2 Criticism of Krivosheev
00:10:23 1.2.1 Summary of Soviet losses listed in Krivosheev
00:10:36 1.2.2 POW deaths
00:13:13 1.2.3 Analysis of S. N. Mikhalev
00:14:31 1.2.4 Convicted of offences by Soviet military
00:15:20 1.2.5 Russian Military Archives database
00:17:24 1.2.6 Critics
00:25:30 1.2.7 Male war dead
00:26:26 1.3 Krivosheev's rebuttal
00:27:10 2 Civilian losses
00:33:19 3 Total population losses
00:33:30 3.1 Demographic studies of the population losses
00:33:41 3.1.1 Studies by Andreev, Darski and Kharkova
00:41:56 3.1.2 Voters lists in 1946 election
00:44:14 3.1.3 Alternative sources of demographic losses
00:46:02 3.1.4 Calculation of Military and Civilian Losses by Nikolai Savchenko
00:49:15 3.1.5 Igor Ivlev
00:51:03 3.2 Estimates of losses by individual Republics
00:55:57 3.3 Estimated losses for each Soviet Republic
00:57:13 3.4 OBD Memorial database
00:57:34 3.5 Communist Party and Komsomol losses
00:59:57 4 Causes
01:03:00 5 Summary of the estimates and their sources
01:03:50 5.1 1946 to 1987
01:08:01 5.2 1988 to 1992
01:10:11 5.3 Russian government reports 1993–95
01:12:57 5.4 Russians published in the West 1950–83
01:14:09 5.5 Western scholars
01:20:21 6 See also
01:20:51 7 Notes



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World War II losses of the Soviet Union from all related causes were about  27,000,000, both civilian and military, although exact figures are disputed. The 20 million number was considered official during the Soviet era. The post-Soviet  government of Russia puts the Soviet war 'losses' at 26.6 million, on the basis of the 1993 study by the Russian Academy of Sciences, including people dying as a result of battle and war related exposure.  This includes 8,668,400 military deaths as calculated by the Russian Ministry of Defense.The figures published by the Russian Ministry of Defense have been accepted by most historians outside Russia (see Western scholars table below). However, the official figure of 8.7 million military deaths has been disputed by some Russian historians who believe that the number of dead and missing POWs is not correct and new research is necessary to determine actual losses. Officials at the Russian Central Defense Ministry Archive (CDMA) maintain that their database lists the names of roughly 14 million dead and missing service personnel.   Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated in 2009 that "data about our losses haven't been revealed yet...We must determine the historical truth." He added that more than 2.4 million people are still officially considered missing in action, of the 9.5 million persons buried in mass graves, 6 million are unidentified. Some Russian politicians and journalists put the total number of losses in the war, both civilian and military, at over 40 million.