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The USSR lost 23 million people, ~13% of its 1939 population. The US lost 1 million people, ~0.3% of its 1939 population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wa
by madh 17y ago
The USSR lost 23 million people, ~13% of its 1939 population. The US lost 1 million people, ~0.3% of its 1939 population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
- Rod 17y agoThose figures do put things in perspective, indeed. I'd just like to point out that the U.S. actually lost approx. 400,000 people "only" (50x less than what the Russians lost). The Lithuanians lost 13% of their population, too. However, in relative terms, the Poles were the ones who suffered the most: 16% of their population. And I am not talking about Auschwitz and other concentration camps only. I remember visiting the Warsaw Uprising Museum ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising ) a couple of years ago, and it was a disturbing experience.
- tokenadult 17y agoThe US lost 1 million people, ~0.3% of its 1939 population. I see the quoted statement, which doesn't make mathematical sense, misquotes Wikipedia. I knew the United States population at that time was too low for one million deaths to be that small a percentage. The Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties shows a lower death total, and shows for each country what assumed number of deaths and estimated national population went into the calculation.
- madh 17y agoYou are absolutely correct. I clearly misread that table. It is ~400,000, still considerably less than Soviet casualties.