The Fallen of World War II - visualizing the human cost

[Betonov]

Interesting the ratio between invasion and post invasion casualties in Yugoslavia.

European countries have not fought eachother since WW2 except Soviet ivnasion of Hungary.
What about the Balkans post 1991.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Betonov

European countries have not fought eachother since WW2 except Soviet ivnasion of Hungary.
What about the Balkans post 1991.

I think it was talking about 1945-1991 when that was said (in the context of the Cold War-era "long peace"). There's been a whole bunch of fighting in Europe since - even besides the Balkans, places like the Transdniester and Georgia come to mind.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by CCIP

I think it was talking about 1945-1991 when that was said (in the context of the Cold War-era "long peace"). There's been a whole bunch of fighting in Europe since - even besides the Balkans, places like the Transdniester and Georgia come to mind.

I'm sure he was refering to the long/new peace 1945-today.

Doesn't matter anyway, including the Balkan wars the death toll was lower than one large battle in WW2.

[Jimbuna]

Those comparators are quite staggering...certainly brings the whole picture into perspective

Great share George

[CCIP]

It's also quite interesting when you consider that the USSR was not a nation-state - and when you break it down by countries within the Soviet Union, there also some pretty shocking numbers. Ukraine and Belarus suffered disproportionately.

Belarus has the unfortunate distinction of exceeding even Poland's record, and by a long shot - by most estimates, 25-27% of the entire population of Belarus died in WWII, including some 90% of Belorussian Jews. The majority all known buildings in the country were leveled in the fighting or by the Germans - the occupation forces deliberately destroyed more than 5000 villages in the country, including some 600 villages that were burned with their entire populations. While not a huge country, it's not a small one either - almost 10 million at the start of the war. So on any scale, it was pretty tremendous.