How did WW2 affect the Soviet people?

• The USSR lost 27 million people during the war.

  • One third of these were military personnel and the other two-thirds were civilians.
  • This figure was over 80 times higher than the losses suffered by either Britain or America.
  • A quarter of these deaths are estimated to have been caused by starvation.
• 70% of the dead were younger men meaning that in 1946, there were 96.2 million women in the Soviet Union compared to 74.4 million men.
• 80 million people had lived under German occupation.

  • This was 40% of the total population.
• 25 million people had been moved from their homes.
• 29 million people had served in the armed forces.