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The problem is the human losses of the Soviet Union in the great Patriotic war exists in our days. There is still no precise data, historians use figures from 20 to 64 million people. Even more the issue of "defectors" – those who, being driven to work in Germany or becoming prisoners of the concentration camps, chose to remain in the West. Moreover, in addition to Europe, the USA and Canada our former compatriots came right up to Australia.

Wound vital organs, as a rule, leads to death. But in the domestic medical practice there are cases that refute this postulate. There are people "in Russian villages", which, for example, after a bullet wound to the heart continue to live, with a full life.

The Stalinist regime sought to engage in political "games" of representatives of all segments of the population, including children. On the one hand, Soviet propaganda extolled all kinds of Pavlik Morozov. On the other hand, it was assumed that the may be conscious of a minor "counter-revolutionaries". One of the most egregious cases occurred in 1944 in Saratov, where according to the 58th article was judged by six students, including 11-year-old Benedict Egorova.

Even today there is no definitive data on the number of captured Germans after the war. Girls who served in the military forces, police, SS were transferred to special camps. Only in the USSR, these places are prepared more than 2 thousand. The conditions were harsh, as evidenced by the numerous memoirs and reminiscences of the prisoners.

William Barr reported it in connection with the publication of the President of the United States concerning the case of his former adviser Roger stone