I live in New York, a US city of approximately 8.5 million people. If everyone here all of a sudden dropped dead in the street, along with everyone in Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco, it still wouldn't equal the civilian and military deaths The Soviet Union suffered between 1941 and 1944
Think of it: 26.6 million war dead. Here in America, we call WW2 "The Big One" and our military casualties didn't crack half a million. Just under half a million is still a very large number but 26.6 million? We humans have no mental framework to process that.
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