some problems with soviet and russian casualty statistics partisan militia deaths of are included with civilian deaths pow losses of million are included with civilian dead losses of 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 to arrive at the total loss of million the russians assume only persons emigrating after ww the actual emigration was about million which means losses were overstated by about the soviet population recorded in the census was million not million stalin ordered the number to be falsified soviet civilian losses of about million persons due to famine in the territory not occupied by the germans are included in the total losses of million the germans had million soviet deserters in their army were killed in action the need to be included with german losses in addition to the war losses of million the russians and the pc crowd in the west tend to ignore the million soviet citizens that died due to communist terror i realize is not npv but it is a fact that can t be ignored 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