Enormous War Losses Advanced as Reason for Soviet Intransigence
Rec. 10.30 p.m. LONDON May, 29. Emphasising that the losses in man-power and material incurred by the Soviet Union during the war, quantitatively measured, were larger than those of any other of the great nations involved, The Times in a leader says it is necessary to recollect this fact if the stubborn and exacting attitude of the Soviet representatives in the subsequent inter-Allied discussions is to be understood. " Losses reliably computed at no fewer than 5,000,000 military and 9,000,000 civilian dead, added to the devastation of the most fertile and productive areas of the Union, have struck the Soviet economy a blow from which recovery cannot at best be rapid,' says the paper, " and they do much to account for the sensitiveness to the criticism and mistrust of the motives of others which have marked the Soviet policy since the end of the war.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26474, 30 May 1947, Page 7
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