Some problems with Soviet and Russian casualty statistics 1 Partisan Militia deaths of 400 000 are included with civilian deaths 2 POW losses of 1 6 million are included with civilian dead 3 Losses of 2 3 million in western Byelorussia Ukraine are included with Poland by western historians The Russians include these losses with the USSR To avoid duplication these losses need to backed out of Soviet or Polish losses 4 To arrive at the total loss of 26 6 million the Russians assume only 450 000 persons emigrating after WW2 The actual emigration was about 1 million which means losses were overstated by about 600 000 5 The Soviet population recorded in the 1939 census was 168 5 million not 170 5 million Stalin ordered the number to be falsified 6 Soviet civilian losses of about 3 million persons due to famine in the territory not occupied by the Germans are included in the total losses of 26 6 million 7 The Germans had 1 million Soviet deserters in their Army 215 000 were killed in action The need to be included with German losses 8 In addition to the war losses of 26 6 million the Russians and the PC crowd in the west tend to ignore the1 7 million Soviet citizens that died due to communist terror I realize is not NPV but it is a fact that can t be ignored 9 Rule of thumb should be to check and analyze Soviet Russian claims of losses They throw a figure at you and expect it to be accepted as official how dare you question official government data Berndd