World War II casualties of the Soviet Union World War II casualties of the Soviet Union World War II fatalities of the Soviet Union from all related causes number was approximately 27,000,000, both civilian and military, although the exact figures are disputed. The number 20 million was considered official during the Soviet era. The Russian government puts the Soviet war dead at 26.6 million based on a 1993 study by the Russian Academy of Sciences. this includes 8,668,400 military deaths as calculated by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The figures published by Russian Ministry of Defense have been accepted by most historians outside Russia (see table below "Western
War comics variety of titles beginning in the 1950s, such as "Battlefield Action", "Fightin' Army", and "Fightin' Marines". Quality also began publishing "G.I. Combat" during this era. Marvel Comics also produced war titles, notably "Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos". In contrast to the typical glamorizing approach of most war titles, the EC Comics titles "Frontline Combat" and "Two-Fisted Tales" (produced in the early 1950s) depicted the horrors of war realistically and in great detail, exposing what editor Harvey Kurtzman saw as the truth about war without idealizing it. (The mid-1960s black-and-white comics magazine "Blazing Combat", produced by Warren Publishing, was similarly