Suddenly, the number of casualties in the Great Patriotic War rose to 41,978,000 people. As you know, the "Brezhnev figure" is 20 million, the current one is 26-27.
At the hearing, the co-chairman of the movement “ Immortal Regiment Russia” presented the report “Documentary Basis of the People’s Project “Establishing the Fates of the Missing Defenders of the Fatherland”, within the framework of which studies were carried out on the decline in the population of the USSR in 1941-45. He changed the idea of the scale of the losses of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War.
According to the declassified data of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of the State Planning Committee of the USSR , the losses of the Soviet Union in World War II amount to 41 million 979 thousand, and not 27 million, as previously thought. That's almost one-third of the current population. Russian Federation. Behind this terrible figure are our fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers. Those who gave their lives for our future. And, perhaps, the biggest betrayal is to forget their names, their feat, their heroism, which have developed into our common great Victory.
- The general decline in the population of the USSR 1941-45. - more than 52 million 812 thousand people. Of these, irretrievable losses as a result of the action of war factors - more than 19 million military personnel and about 23 million civilian population. The total natural mortality of military personnel and the civilian population during this period could have amounted to more than 10 million 833 thousand people (including 5 million 760 thousand dead children under the age of four). The irretrievable losses of the population of the USSR as a result of the action of war factors amounted to almost 42 million people, the presentation report says.
The above information is confirmed by a huge number of original documents, authoritative publications and testimonies. All of them are a harsh embodiment of the deep pain of our people, who suffered incredible losses and achieved victory over a cruel enemy.
The presentation itself could not be found, but some assumptions can be made.
19 million troops. Most likely, we are talking about the number of records in the OBD Memorial or other similar databases. It is known that information about the same person can occur 2-3, or even 5 times. According to some estimates, in reality we can talk about 8-9 million registered military personnel. At the same time, of course, there are those who are not taken into account, there are those who are listed as missing but returned to duty.
23 million civilians. The origin of this figure cannot be established. Previously, the losses were estimated at 18-19 million, but in this case they coincided with the front. It is possible that the figure was adjusted, assuming the loss of population by 20% more than the military losses.
Why is this necessary? The title of the report “Establishing the Fates of the Missing Defenders of the Fatherland” seems to me to contain a clue - the site “narodnyproekt.rf” has been launched, which obviously requires significant funding. The larger the numbers, the greater the requests and the less achievable goals. It turns out that out of 19 million, 9 million are more or less known, but 10 million have to be worked on ...
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1. In the original version, it was referred to the Ministry of Defense, but later the now defunct State Planning Committee of the USSR appeared.
”: “At the hearings, the co-chairman of the Immortal Regiment of Russia movement presented a report “The Documentary Basis of the People’s Project“ Establishing the Fates of the Missing Defenders of the Fatherland, ”in which studies were carried out on the decline in the population of the USSR in 1941–45. He changed the idea of the scale of the losses of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. According to the declassified data of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, the losses Soviet Union in the Second World War are 41 million 979 thousand, and not 27 million, as previously thought. This is almost one third of the modern population of the Russian Federation. Behind this terrible figure are our fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers. Those who gave their lives for our future. And, perhaps, the biggest betrayal is to forget their names, their feat, their heroism, which have developed into our common great Victory. “The general decline in the population of the USSR 1941–45. - more than 52 million 812 thousand people. Of these, irretrievable losses as a result of the action of war factors - more than 19 million military personnel and about 23 million civilians. The total natural mortality of military personnel and the civilian population during this period could have amounted to more than 10 million 833 thousand people (including 5 million 760 thousand - dead children under the age of four). The irretrievable losses of the population of the USSR as a result of the action of war factors amounted to almost 42 million people, ”the presentation report says. The above information is confirmed by a huge number of original documents, authoritative publications and testimonies. All of them are a harsh embodiment of the deep pain of our people, who suffered incredible losses and achieved victory over a cruel enemy. The beauty of situevina is that these numbers have already been stated more than once and refuted just as many times. Such a level of losses, with all the desire, cannot be classified. Information from dozens of sources published in different time and at different political systems in the country, are quite consistent with each other with an error of 1–2%: the demographic losses (that is, taking into account both the unborn and those who died prematurely from everyday hardships, etc.) of the population of the USSR amounted to 27.7 million people, including 8.5 9 million killed and died from the consequences of combat wounds and / or diseases while in armed forces, 2.5–3 million did not return from captivity or forced labor in Germany. Data provided on behalf of the State Planning Committee of the USSR and " Immortal Regiment"- deliberately false fabrications (which recalls the liberoid origin of the very idea of \u200b\u200bthe Immortal Regiment, which was intercepted in time by sane citizens, but not yet completely cleared of anti-Soviet \u003d anti-Russian fantasies).
How the official data on the losses of the USSR changed
Recently, the State Duma announced new figures for the human losses of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War- almost 42 million people. An additional 15 million people were added to the previous official figures. The head of the Museum-Memorial of the Great Patriotic War of the Kazan Kremlin, our columnist Mikhail Cherepanov, in the author's column of Realnoe Vremya talks about the declassified losses of the USSR and Tatarstan.
The irretrievable losses of the Soviet Union as a result of the factors of the Second World War are more than 19 million military personnel.
Despite many years of well-paid sabotage and all sorts of efforts by generals and politicians to hide the true price of our Victory over fascism, February 14, 2017 at State Duma at parliamentary hearings Patriotic education citizens of Russia: "The Immortal Regiment" finally declassified the numbers closest to the truth:
“According to the declassified data of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, the losses of the Soviet Union in World War II amount to 41 million 979 thousand, and not 27 million, as previously thought. The total decline in the population of the USSR in 1941-1945 was more than 52 million 812 thousand people. Of these, irretrievable losses as a result of the action of war factors are more than 19 million military personnel and about 23 million civilians.
According to the report, this information is confirmed big amount authentic documents, authoritative publications and testimonies (details - on the Immortal Regiment website and other resources).
The history of the matter is
In March 1946, in an interview with the Pravda newspaper, I.V. Stalin announced: “As a result of the German invasion, the Soviet Union irretrievably lost in battles with the Germans, and also thanks to German occupation and the deportation of Soviet people to German penal servitude about seven million people.
In 1961, N.S. Khrushchev, in a letter to the Prime Minister of Sweden, wrote: "The German militarists unleashed a war against the Soviet Union, which claimed two tens of millions of lives of Soviet people."
On May 8, 1990, at a meeting of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in honor of the 45th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the final number of casualties was announced: "Almost 27 million people."
In 1993, a team of military historians led by Colonel General G.F. Krivosheeva published a statistical study “Secrecy has been removed. Losses of the Armed Forces of the USSR in wars, hostilities and military conflicts. It indicates the amount of total losses - 26.6 million people, including combat losses published for the first time: 8,668,400 soldiers and officers.
In 2001, a reprint of the book was published under the editorship of G.F. Krivosheev “Russia and the USSR in the wars of the XX century. Losses of the Armed Forces: A Statistical Study". One of her tables stated that deadweight losses only Soviet army and fleet during the Great Patriotic War - 11,285,057 people. (See page 252.) 
In 2010, in the next edition of the Great Patriotic War without a secrecy stamp. The Book of Losses, again edited by G.F. Krivosheev, the data on the losses of the armies fighting in 1941-1945 were specified. Demographic losses reduced to 8,744,500 troops (p. 373):
A natural question arises: where was the mentioned “data of the State Planning Committee of the USSR” about the combat losses of our Army stored, if even the heads of the special commissions of the Ministry of Defense could not study them for more than 70 years? How true are they?
Everything is relative. It is worth remembering that it was in the book “Russia and the USSR in the Wars of the 20th Century” that we were finally allowed to find out in 2001 how many of our compatriots were mobilized into the ranks of the Red (Soviet) Army during the years of World War II: 34,476,700 people (p. 596.).
If we take on faith the official figure of 8,744 thousand people, then the share of our military losses will be 25 percent. That is, according to the commission of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, only every fourth soviet soldier and the officer did not return from the front.
I don't think anyone would agree with this. locality former USSR. In every village or aul there are plates with the names of the dead fellow countrymen. At best, only half of those who went to the front 70 years ago wear them.
Statistics of Tatarstan
Let's see what the statistics are in our Tatarstan, on the territory of which there were no battles.
In the book of Professor Z.I. Gilmanov “Workers of Tataria on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War”, published in Kazan in 1981, it was stated that the military enlistment offices of the republic sent 560 thousand citizens to the front and 87 thousand of them did not return.
In 2001, Professor A.A. Ivanov in his doctoral thesis "Combat losses of the peoples of Tatarstan during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." announced that from 1939 to 1945 about 700 thousand citizens were drafted into the army from the territory of the Tatar Republic, and 350 thousand of them did not return.
As the head of the working group of the editorial board of the Book of Memory of the Republic of Tatarstan from 1990 to 2007, I can clarify: taking into account the natives called up from other regions of the country, the losses of our Tatarstan during the Second World War amounted to at least 390 thousand soldiers and officers.
And these are the irretrievable losses of the republic, on whose territory not a single bomb or shell of the enemy fell!
Are the losses of other regions of the former USSR even less than the national average?
Time will show. And our task is to wrest from obscurity and enter into the database of the losses of the Republic of Tatarstan, presented in the Victory Park of Kazan, if possible, the names of all fellow countrymen.
And this should be done not only by single enthusiasts on their own initiative, but also by professional search engines on behalf of the state itself.
It is physically impossible to do this only in excavations at the battlefields in all Memory Watches. This requires massive and constant work in the archives published on the websites of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and other thematic resources of the Internet.
But that's a completely different story...
Mikhail Cherepanov, illustrations provided by the author
Reference
Mikhail Valerievich Cherepanov- Head of the Museum-Memorial of the Great Patriotic War of the Kazan Kremlin; Chairman of the Association "Club military glory»; Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Historical Sciences, Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Tatarstan.
- Born in 1960.
- Graduated from Kazan State University them. IN AND. Ulyanov-Lenin with a degree in Journalism.
- Since 2007 he has been working at the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan.
- One of the creators of the 28-volume book "Memory" of the Republic of Tatarstan about those who died during the Second World War, 19 volumes of the Book of Memory of the Victims political repression Republic of Tatarstan and others.
- Creator eBook in memory of the Republic of Tatarstan (a list of natives and residents of Tatarstan who died during the Second World War).
- Author of thematic lectures from the cycle "Tatarstan during the war years", thematic excursions "Feat of countrymen on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War".
- Co-author of the concept of the virtual museum "Tatarstan - Fatherland".
- Member of 60 search expeditions to bury the remains of soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War (since 1980), member of the board of the Union search parties Russia.
- Author of more than 100 scientific and educational articles, books, participant of all-Russian, regional, international conferences. Columnist of Realnoe Vremya.
Recently, parliamentary hearings “Patriotic Education of Russian Citizens: “The Immortal Regiment”” were held in the Duma. They were attended by deputies, senators, representatives of the legislative and supreme executive bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the Ministries of Education and Science, Defense, Foreign Affairs, Culture, members of public associations, organizations of foreign compatriots ... True, there were no those who came up with - journalists from Tomsk TV-2, no one even remembered them. And, in general, there was really no need to remember. The "Immortal Regiment", which, by definition, did not provide for any staffing, no commanders and political officers, has already completely transformed into a sovereign "box" of parade crew, and its main task today is to learn to step in step and keep alignment in the ranks.
“What is a people, a nation? First of all, it is respect for victories,” Vyacheslav Nikonov, chairman of the parliamentary committee, admonished the participants when opening the hearings. — Today, when new war, which someone calls "hybrid", our Victory becomes one of the main targets for attacks on historical memory. There are waves of falsification of history that should make us believe that it was not us, but someone else who won, and still make us apologize ... ”For some reason, the Nikonovs are seriously sure that it was they who, long before their own birth, won Great Victory for which, moreover, someone is trying to make them apologize. But they weren't attacked! And the aching note of the nationwide misfortune that has not passed, the phantom pain for the third generation of the descendants of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War is drowned out by a cheerful, thoughtless cry: “We can repeat it!”
Really, can we?
It was at these hearings that a terrible figure was named in between times, which for some reason was not noticed by anyone, which did not make us stop in horror on the run in order to understand WHAT we were told after all. Why this was done now, I do not know.
At the hearings, the co-chairman of the Immortal Regiment of Russia movement, State Duma deputy Nikolai Zemtsov, presented the report “Documentary basis of the People’s Project “Establishing the Fates of the Missing Defenders of the Fatherland”, within the framework of which studies of the population decline were carried out, which changed the idea of the scale of the losses of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War.
“The total decline in the population of the USSR in 1941-1945 was more than 52 million 812 thousand people,” Zemtsov said, citing declassified data from the USSR State Planning Committee. - Of these, irretrievable losses as a result of the action of war factors - more than 19 million military personnel and about 23 million civilians. The total natural mortality of military personnel and the civilian population during this period could have amounted to more than 10 million 833 thousand people (including 5 million 760 thousand - deceased children under the age of four). The irretrievable losses of the population of the USSR as a result of the action of war factors amounted to almost 42 million people.
Can we… do it again?!
Back in the 60s of the last century, the then young poet Vadim Kovda wrote a short poem in four lines: “ If only in my front door / there are three elderly disabled people / then how many of them were injured? / And killed?
Now these elderly people with disabilities due to natural causes are less and less visible. But Kovda imagined the scale of losses quite correctly, it was enough just to multiply the number of front doors.
Stalin, proceeding from considerations inaccessible to a normal person, personally determined the losses of the USSR at 7 million people - a little less than the losses of Germany. Khrushchev - 20 million. Under Gorbachev, a book was published, prepared by the Ministry of Defense under the editorship of General Krivosheev, “Secrecy has been lifted”, in which the authors named and in every possible way justified this very figure - 27 million. Now it turns out that she was wrong.
