>>25630374
Soviet military casualties weren't that different from Axis in total against whom USSR fought too. Strictly speaking, Red Army casualties are around 8 million, Wehrmacht is 6 million, hardly a sizeable difference. Large numbers of Soviet casualties were in part inflated by Soviet self-victimizing propaganda from non-combatant civilian deaths, e.g. genocide in Belarus, Ukraine, Western Russia, Leningrad blockade and wartime famines in general.