The Second World War was the largest war ever experienced by mankind, and it killed more than 70 million people. Of these 70 million people, the Soviet Union accounted for nearly half, because the Soviet death toll was as high as 26.6 million, of which 9.1648 million were military deaths, accounting for about 35% of the total death toll, which did not include 15.2 million wounded Soviet troops, adding up to more than 24 million Soviet casualties, equivalent to about one-seventh of the country's population.
But what is puzzling is that after the Soviet army paid such a big sacrifice, the number of soldiers increased, why is this? The exposure of the truth is difficult to accept.
After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, with advanced weapons and equipment and a high will to fight, it brought a heavy blow to the Soviet army. In order to resist the frenzied attack of the German army, the Soviet Union began to mobilize citizens to join the army from the second day of the outbreak of the war.
At that time, the Soviet Union first mobilized male citizens aged 23-37, and in just one week, 5.3 million male citizens were conscripted into the army, and most of these people were killed in the war. In order to replenish the troops, the Soviet Union began to mobilize people down to the age of 18 and up to the age of 50 to participate in the war. Later in the war, the Soviet Union set the lower limit of joining the army to 17 years old and the upper limit to 55 years old. Many students in school and more than half a hundred years old have gone to the battlefield.
In addition, according to statistics, more than 800,000 women are also conscripted into the army, and they do not do logistical work like female soldiers in other countries, but take up guns and fight with male soldiers on the battlefield.
In addition, in order to replenish its forces, the Soviet Union even sent prisoners to the battlefield. Beginning on August 29, 1943, the Soviet Union forced 1.3 million prisoners to join the army with guns, and by the end of the war, fewer than 50 percent of the prisoners had survived.
After the second time, the Soviet Union conducted a statistical survey, which showed that all Soviet families, from senior officials to ordinary people, had family members who died in the Great Patriotic War. Men born in 1932 had the highest mortality rate, because at the outbreak of war they were exactly 18 years old, and because they first went to war, they experienced the most wars, and by the end of the war, less than twenty percent survived.
Those who are familiar with the history of World War II should know that every battle of the Soviet Union during World War II paid casualties in tens of thousands. In those turning battles, the Soviet Union suffered hundreds of thousands or even millions of casualties.
The number of deaths in China during World War II, although not as high as in the Soviet Union, was also as high as 18 million, and the price paid was also very heavy. It is these people's fight for their lives that has brought us a better life today, so we must cherish this hard-won peace.