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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
One of the most controversial questions dominating the historiography of the Second World War is that of determining the human cost of this struggle, in particular, the losses suffered by the Soviet Union and its Red Army during this most terrible of 20th century wars. The sheer immensity of these losses, coupled with the radically shifting European borders during and immediately after the war that complicated the task of calculating losses, demonstrates just how formidable, if not utterly futile, this task really is. As a result, estimates of the human losses the Soviet Union's population and military suffered during the war vary widely depending on such factors as the nationality and ethnicity of the author and the methodology the author employed. This article, written by a Russian journalist and historian, presents one of the most radical and gruesome of existing estimates.
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