Solzhenitsyn, anon officer, anon telephone operator. They sound like credible witneses. Surely Solzhenitsyn won't ever lie (nor would people make up accounts of anons for political convenience), as he had no zero anti-Soviet bias nor never inflated his own figures of political repression in the USSR.
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The eastern front was barbarism. How many sovet soldiers came from the occupied areas when they fell back as the Germans advanced and when they retook the area they learned their family was executed to make room rof the german lebensraum. And not only their own family, but your comrades families.
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I think that around 2m people have returned from "irrecoverable" losses (ie taken prisoner, dead and missing) during the course of war.