By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2025
Soviet Strategy and the Downfall of Salvador Allende
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Tag Archives: Joseph Stalin
The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1866 – 1876
Maxim Gorky and Whitewashing Soviet Crimes
The Nazis Who Fled to South America: Where, Who, and Why?
Taking the Right Lessons From the Dismantling of the Russian Illegals Network in Brazil
Did 27 Million Soviet Citizens Die Fighting the Nazis?
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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