In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Chinese people won the victory of resisting aggression at a huge cost of casualties. Because there was no basic wartime statistical system in China at that time, there were also discrepancies in the accounts of military and civilian casualties. According to the research of later researchers, it is generally believed that the number of casualties in China in the War of Resistance Against Japan was 35 million to 40 million. Of those, 20 million died. In this figure, the death toll of military personnel is about 5-8 million.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
However, in World War II, China was not the only country that sacrificed a large number of people to resist the invaders. Soviet Russia also paid a very heavy price in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. During the League era, soviet death tolls in World War II were published at 8 million, and the number of casualties across the League was 26 million. However, in the Russian era, with the release of more World War II materials and further examination of history, the loss data of Soviet Russia in World War II was refreshed again and again.
Soviet officer in the Great Patriotic War
Russia currently believes that more than 10 million Soviet soldiers gave their lives for the motherland during the Four Years of The Great Patriotic War – some researchers believe that the death toll of soviet troops in the war reached 14 million or even higher. The number of civilian deaths is about 13-16 million. Taken together, in the war, the total number of deaths in the alliance exceeded 20 million, and the total population loss reached 30 million to 40 million. When war broke out in 1941, the total population of the league was 200 million people, and the casualty ratio was terrible.
Infantry followed the tank charge
Among them, young and middle-aged men aged 20-34 lost 36% in the war, and the impact on the population ratio of the union's member states continues to this day. Contrary to what many people understand, the imbalance in the proportion of the population may take a long time to recover. Especially in the short-term war, the huge number of male casualties caused by the alliance population is too large, coupled with the relatively low birth rate of the union countries.
Soviet soldiers
In modern times, russia, Belarus and other countries, the population is still more men and less women, equivalent to the losses of the war in that year have not eased up today. The former Confederate countries suffered a devastating population loss in World War II, and in the late 1940s and early 1950s, they suffered a huge dilemma brought about by the ruins of the post-war period. Not long after the alliance entered the boom phase of the 1970s, it fell apart again in 1991 and fell into turmoil again. Most of the countries of the former Union are now in a situation where their populations are decreasing year by year.
Russia holds an annual military parade to commemorate the Great Patriotic War
Take, for example, the Battle of Leningrad from the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1944. The entire city was besieged by the Germans, suffering not only casualties on the battlefield, but also hunger and disease. During the League era, the death toll of civilians in the Defense of Leningrad was considered to be 800,000, while in the Russian era it rose to more than 1 million. Combined with military losses, it is 2 million or even higher. The losses in one battle were several times more than the number the United States lost in World War II as a whole.
A Soviet writer recalls that he had just graduated from college at the beginning of the war. In 1943 he joined the Soviet Army and survived the war. When he returned to campus in 1946, he learned that only 3 of the more than 60 people in a class had survived the war... In addition, in World War II, some small countries also paid a very heavy price, especially relative to their total population ratio. For example, Poland died 6 million people, And Yugoslavia died nearly 2 million people. The peoples and armies of these countries fought to defend their homeland against the aggressors.