D-Day

An article by Eric Margolis provides an excellent corrective to the standard Hollywood narrative, from which most people learn their history these days.

Note: Russia lost to Germany’s Nazis, 13,950,000, or exactly 12.7% of its population. Another part of the Soviet Union, Belarus, lost 2.29 million, or exactly 25.3% of its population to Hitler. Another part of the USSR, Ukraine, lost 6.85 million, or 16.3%. The entire Soviet Union lost 26.6 million, exactly 13.7% of its population to Hitler.

The US lost only 419,400, or 0.32% of its population.