During the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War the Red Army lost a total of 8,668,400 of its personnel, which is 1.5 million more than the previously stated official figure, said Alexander Kanshin, head of the Russian Public Chamber national security commission.
“According to the latest data obtained by the Public Chamber from the Defense Ministry, the irretrievable losses of the Red Army personnel list – deaths, fatal injuries, missing prisoners of war – stood at 8,668,400 during the war”, he told Interfax-AVN.
This puts the army death toll more than 1.5 million people above the previous statistic, he said.
“Earlier it was officially stated that over seven million Soviet soldiers died in and outside our country during the war,” Kanshin said.
