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There is No Certainty About the Casualty Numbers in Rwanda

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 July 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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Book Review: ‘The Knife Went In’

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 July 2024

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