Dedicated to Victory DayΒ
The biggest human losses of World War II by countries from the anti-German coalition:Β Lithuania - 350 000 USA - 418 500 United Kingdom - 450 900 France - 567 600 Yugoslavia - 1 027 000 USSR - 25 000 000 deaths Those photos are from a social action βImmortal regimentβ when people go in the street with the photos of their family members who died in this war fighting nazi. EveryΒ family here went through such loss. My great-grandmΠ° one by one sent to front her husband and three sons, and only the youngest, my grandpa, came back alive.Β Β
From the whole number of USSR human losses, military deaths number ~11 000 000. Other 14 000 000 (for instanse, the number of killed jews in WWII is 5-6 million) are soviet women, children and oldman that were captured and tortured to death in concentration camps, or died under air bomb attacks. (Did you know that slavs were estimated by nazi as subhuman race and until 1943 were obliterated as βuseless materialβ?) But these people didnβt give in, even when they had all the rights to surrender. Β They showed invincible strength and readiness to define their Motherlandβ¦ (the Battle of Stalingrad lasted for 200 days and nights on more than 100 km2 of earth with thousands of tanks and planes. German army was higher by 83 000 soldiers than Soviet one, naziβs aircraft was twice more than soviet. Stalingrad Β was bombed endlessly for two weeks and was totally damaged. From the 70 000 of civilians who were not evacuated from the city less than 1000 survived. Both sides together lost more than 2 000 000 soldiers. By comparison, in the largest and bloodiest battle fought by the US in WWII, the Battle of the Bulge, 19 000 died) Β When they starved to death, died under bombs and didnβt even have electricity during - 30 Β°F winterβ¦ ( The Siege of Leningrad lasted 2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days. It was the longest and most destructive siege in history and overwhelmingly the most costly in terms of casualties) When the nazi army incomparably surpassed them by number and weaponsβ¦(Pavlovβs house was held by 4 soldiers for 58 days against a heavy Wehrmacht offensive, and still wasnβt conquered. By comparison, the Battle of France lasted 45 days and the Battle of the Netherlands lasted 7 days ) They continued to fight against Nazi Germany, no matter what. While adducing this numbers, I donβt mean Soviet Union won this war all by itself. The Victory would not be possible without the Allied Forces. I just want to honor those people from my Motherland who overcame their own possibilities, who refused to kneel to invaders and died for the sake of humanity. Their feat should be remembered.
