Originally Posted by ikalugin

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.


I think that around 2m people have returned from "irrecoverable" losses (ie taken prisoner, dead and missing) during the course of war.