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soviet fatalities
The image used to illustrate the partition of Poland between the Nazis and the Soviets, [[:File:Communazipact1.JPG]], doesn't show that. Instead, it shows an early proposal for post-WWII Poland - note that East Prussia gets divided, with the eastern part "to Russia" and the western part "to Poland". The western border of the new Poland, in the middle of Silesia, is farther east than what was eventually agreed upon among the victors - I believe there was some confusion about which of two like-named rivers should become the new German-Polish border. Anyway, since the image is clearly inappropriate in this context, I removed it. [[User:Yoritomo|Yoritomo]] 18:52, 11 December 2009 (EST)
The image used to illustrate the partition of Poland between the Nazis and the Soviets, [[:File:Communazipact1.JPG]], doesn't show that. Instead, it shows an early proposal for post-WWII Poland - note that East Prussia gets divided, with the eastern part "to Russia" and the western part "to Poland". The western border of the new Poland, in the middle of Silesia, is farther east than what was eventually agreed upon among the victors - I believe there was some confusion about which of two like-named rivers should become the new German-Polish border. Anyway, since the image is clearly inappropriate in this context, I removed it. [[User:Yoritomo|Yoritomo]] 18:52, 11 December 2009 (EST)
::good work! [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 19:18, 11 December 2009 (EST)
::good work! [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 19:18, 11 December 2009 (EST)
==Soviet-German War==
I am deleting a paragraph claiming that the number of Soviet fatalities during the years of the so-called Great Patriotic War is less than the number Stalin had been causing per year by his horrendous treatment of the Soviet (generally Ukrainian) people during the years leading up to the conflict.
I had always thought a figure of between 24 and 27 million was correct and the following sites confirm that.
*http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/world-war-2-statistics.asp 25m
*http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/ww2-by-the-numbers/world-wide-deaths.html 24m
*http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/fatalities 25.57m
*http://sovietinfo.tripod.com/ELM-War_Deaths.pdf 26.6m
*http://www.worldwar2facts.org/world-war-2-casualties.html 26.6m
[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 02:31, 10 May 2015 (EDT)