Whats the latest P.C. number of deaths caused by WW2?
There’s no way you can ‘remember’ 20 million as the figure for total dead in WW2, as that figure has NEVER been put forward by historians as the final total. 50 million to 60 million is a figure that’s been bandied about by historians and the media as long as I can remember, so there’s nothing new in 60 million being mentioned in public by a politician. As for exaggeration, the above figure is based on between 20 million Russian war dead (what the USSR admitted to), and 26 million Russian war dead (estimate by Western historians). However, at a conference in Berlin in the late 1990s I was speaking with a Russian historian who was one of the first to be allowed in to the state archives after the fall of Communism, and he told me his research (conducted using official WW2 Soviet documents) indicates that the total of Russian dead in WW2 was at least 40 million, and possibly many more. So, 60 million may well be on the low side as a figure for total dead in WW2. Anyway, why do you have a
