RUSSIA’S ENORMOUS LOSSES
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 9. A high Russian general told the correspondent of Reuter’s that Russia had lost between 12,000,000 anti 15,000,000 dead in the struggle which ended with Germany’s capitulation. Half of these were civilians. “There were occasions,” said the general, “when we had to lose about 500,000 men at a time to save the army itself.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25669, 11 May 1945, Page 5
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