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Yeah, the Soviet Union had 20-27M deaths in WWII, the most of any country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

• tablespoon 5y ago
  > Yeah, the Soviet Union had 20-27M deaths in WWII, the most of any country. That's another reason for a Russian to not be a fan of Nazism, but it doesn't seem like an insurmountable one. The thing that boggles my mind is the Nazis thought Slavs like Russians were subhuman and planned to exterminate them [1]. "Russian Nazi" seems like it would be almost the same level of contradiction as "Nazi Jew." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavic_sentiment#Nazi_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavic_sentiment#Nazi_Ger...
  • me_me_me 5y ago
    I don't know what you are downvoted for, because all you said is exactly he history. POV camps for Wester Allies and Soviets were like haven and hell. Soviets were considered a half-human by nazi regime.
• throw0101a 5y ago
  Some niggles: 'Only' about half of those were in Russia itself. Breaking things out by Soviet 'provinces', which are now independent countries: Belarus had 2.3M and Ukraine had 6.9M. Absolute numbers also don't tell the whole story: 25% of Belarus' population was killed, while 'only' 12.7% of Russia's was. Ukraine, 16.3%; Latvia, 13.7%; Armenia, 13.7%; Poland, 17%.