“Those numbers are pure fantasy, at least in relation to the point that they are being used to make”: Yeap, figures are not exact. It was exaggerated for propaganda purpose in both sides.
But amazingly enough, not in what some could expect.
The Russian atrocities or the Allies “killing”, as the figures for Dresden, are going down, and the Nazi victims are going up with the “recent” discovery or the extermination without camps (in former USSR).
A French Catholic Priest is actually doing an excellent job en the Baltic States in discovering new mass graves, which were covered-up by and to the Soviets for various reasons…
However, Stalin probably killed more Russian than Hitler on a longest period but there is no reason to take some blame of Hitler for being less successful.
But again, no real figures are actually available so we’ve got the so-called Holodomor (genocide or just the communist version of the Irish famine 1845-1852) Bad government or Cruel Government? At least, Ireland was still exporting food when the Irish were dying…
We do know that Stalin executed the ones he ordered to surrender in 1941 as they were witnesses of his mistakes and put the blame on Germany. But it is a small amount comparing the Russian POW victims of the Nazi.
We can mégoter or pinailler (French for arguing about figures or fact that doesn’t make really a difference) about how much of the Chinese were victims of the Civil War between the Nationalists and the Communists, however, the rape of Nankin and the bombing campaign against the Chinese towns were Japanese.
Some less important nations were forgotten in the count for the axis victims e.g. the Vietnamese or the Forced Indigenous Labour on the River Kwai railways sites.
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