Tag Archives: Great Patriotic War

Why the Soviet Union Called All State Enemies “Fascists” and “Nazis”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 October 2025

The Fascization of the Enemy Image in Soviet Visual Propaganda at the Beginning of the Cold War Period (1946–1964)

E. A. Fedosov

2017

Bulletin of Tomsk State University [Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta]

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Did 27 Million Soviet Citizens Die Fighting the Nazis?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 April 2025

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A Note on Viktor Zemskov’s Estimate of Soviet Fatalities in the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 April 2025

Russian historian Viktor Zemskov estimated in 2012 that total Soviet losses in the “Great Fatherland War” were sixteen million (11.5 million military casualties and 4.5 million civilian deaths), a far lower total than the official Soviet claim since 1990, inherited by the Russian Federation, of twenty-seven million.

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The Soviet Union Won the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024

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