Someone here on FR mentioned that the Russians averaged losing 5000 men a day for the entire war in WWII.
I didn’t believe it until I ran the numbers. It was true!
USSR military dead 8,668,000 to 11,400,000
USSR civilian dead due to war 4,500,000 to 10,000,000
USSR civilian dead due to famine and disease 8,000,000 to 9,000,000
Total USSR dead in WW2 20,000,000 to 27,000,000
Russian dead in WW 1 was still high but nothing like WW2
2,840,000 to
3,394,369
The Great War, overall, killed nearly 10,000 men a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, for over four years.
I just ran 20 million over six years...that is over 9,000 a day. My God.