The Cost of war

• 27 million die as a cost of the Great Patriotic War

  • Leningrad victims were higher than the total wartime deaths of the US and UK together -estimated 1.5 million
  • Japan lost 7 x more than 1 US or UK
  • Germany lost 20 x more than 1 US or UK
  • Soviet cost was 85 x more than one US or UK
  • 70% deaths were young men - the future of the Soviet union
  • Women outnumber men at the end - 92 million women to 74 million men - over 21 million
  • 80 million people under German occupation at one time - 25 million move to east
• One death is a tragedy - a million is a statistic
• Economic

  • Scorched Earth Policy enacted - destroyed everything during retreats - Germans did the same as they retreated
  • 1700 towns destroyed - 70,000 villages destroyed - 65000 km of railways lost
  • 40% of agricultural output lost
  • 25 million homeless resultingly
  • over 2 million disabled in war