Winter War 70th anniversary

[Raptor1]

Actually, I believe the casualty figures in that picture are quite a bit higher than reality.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Actually, I believe the casualty figures in that picture are quite a bit higher than reality.

There isnt any official figures for russian casualties. An russian research team went thru every available documents and came up with 126 875 KIA and 265 000 wounded. Mannerheim gives an approximate number based on the number of divisions destroyed to be ~200 000 in his memoirs.

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Dowly

There isnt any official figures for russian casualties. An russian research team went thru every available documents and came up with 126 875 KIA and 265 000 wounded. Mannerheim gives an approximate number based on the number of divisions destroyed to be ~200 000 in his memoirs.

The 'official' figure from the Soviet government was 48,745 dead, which is, of course, nonsense.

100,000-200,000 would be a realistic estimate. That picture gives a total of over 600,000 Soviet dead and missing, which I do believe is far from any logical estimate.