During the Great Patriotic War, sons and daughters of all the republics and all peoples of the USSR fought shoulder to shoulder at the front. Every nation in this war had its heroes.

The peoples who had the most heroes

During the Great Patriotic War, 7998 Russians, 2021 Ukrainians, 299 Belarusians became Heroes of the Soviet Union. The next in terms of the number of heroes are Tatars - 161, Jews - 107, Kazakhs - 96, Georgians - 90, Armenians - 89.

Other nations

Uzbeks - 67 heroes, Mordvinians - 63, Chuvash - 45, Azerbaijanis - 43, Bashkirs - 38, Ossetians - 33 were not far behind the Georgians and Armenians.

9 heroes each came from the German (we are talking, of course, about the Volga Germans) and the Estonian peoples, 8 each from the Karelians, Buryats and Mongols, Kalmyks, Kabardians. Adygs gave the country 6 heroes, Abkhazians - 4, Yakuts - 2, Moldavians - also 2, Tuvans -1. And finally, representatives of the repressed peoples, such as Chechens and Crimean Tatars, fought no less bravely than the rest. 5 Chechens and 6 Crimean Tatars were awarded the title of Heroes of the Soviet Union.

About "uncomfortable" nationalities

At the household level, there were practically no ethnic conflicts in the USSR, everyone lived peacefully side by side, and treated each other, if not as brothers, then as good neighbors. However, at the state level there were periods when some peoples were considered "wrong". These are, first of all, the repressed peoples, and the Jews.

Everyone who is even a little interested in the issue of the Crimean Tatars knows the name of Ametkhan Sultan, the legendary ace pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Feats were also performed by representatives of the Chechen people. As you know, in 1942, the conscription of residents of the Chechen-Ingush Republic to the front was stopped, but by the end of the summer of this year, when the Nazis invaded the North Caucasus, it was decided to call volunteers from among the Chechens and Ingush to the front. 18.5 thousand volunteers came to the recruiting stations. They fought to the death on the outskirts of Stalingrad as part of a separate Chechen-Ingush regiment.

There is often an opinion about the Jews that the representatives of this ancient people are capable, first of all, of intellectual work and commerce, and the warriors of them are so-so. And that's not true. 107 Jews became Heroes of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War. The merit of the Jews, for example, in the organization partisan movement in Odessa.

From "natural" numbers to percentages

7998 Russians became Heroes of the Soviet Union during the war years. At first glance, this number is much more than 6 - that is how many Heroes of the Soviet Union from the Circassians. However, if you look at the percentage of heroes to population, you get a completely different picture. The 1939 census showed that 99,591,520 Russians live in the country. Adyghes - 88115. And it turns out that the percentage of heroes per "capita" among the small Adyghe people is even slightly higher than among the Russians - 0.0068 against 0.0080. The “percentage of heroism” for Ukrainians is 0.0072, for Belarusians – 0.0056, for Uzbeks – 0.0013, for Chechens – 0.0012, and so on. It is clear that the number of heroes in itself cannot be considered an exhaustive characteristic of the national spirit, but the ratio of the number of heroes and the total population says something about the people. If you look at these statistics using the example of the peoples of the USSR, it will become clear that during the war years each of our peoples contributed their share to the common victory, and it would be a flagrant injustice to single out someone.

Over the past couple of days or years, I have seen skirmishes between "Soviet" and "Russian" several times in the tapes over who "won fascism."

We understand and without "snotty" boys.

Let's start with the truth: Under the "Russians", as you know, the Nazis meant the entire population of the USSR. But when things went really bad for the Hitlerites, their policy towards the peoples of the USSR (Soviet Russia) began to change, and if in the "OST" plan the Nazis set the goal of dividing the Russians, both in terms of territories and beliefs, if simpler, then it sounded like this: Every Slavic village should have its own idol or idol (Hitler)... Which, in principle, is what Western ideologists are now repeating.

But by the middle of 1942, the goals began to be adjusted somewhat, and one of the directions in ideology was the disunity of the peoples themselves within the USSR.

All-Union census of the population of 1939. "National composition of the population by republics of the USSR"

The population of the USSR in 1939 - 170.557.093 people.

The number of irretrievable losses of the USSR Armed Forces in the Second World War - 8.668.400 people

Disclaimer:

1. Only the 20 largest nationalities of the USSR for 1939 are taken into account.

The peoples included in the table (162,883,937 people) cover 95.50% of the population of the USSR in 1939.

The losses included in the table (8.415.500 people) cover 97.08% of the losses of the USSR Armed Forces in the Second World War.

2. The Balts, Moldovan-Romanians, Poles are not included in the top 20 - due to the movement of borders in 1939.

3. Germans are not included in the top 20, you yourself understand why.

4. Mistakes are possible about the "Peoples of Dagestan", because. I'm not sure what that meant at the time.

5. 1939 and 1941-45 are not the same thing, but I think everything is within the framework of a statistical error.

6. I remind you that these are the losses of military personnel called up for service. Those. we consider contribution only to hostilities.

7. There are errors in connection with the occupation by the Germans in the very first months of the war of significant territories of the USSR, and as a consequence of the impossibility of a complete conscription from their territories, i.e. the figures for the losses of Ukrainians and Belarusians should be higher.

The combat contribution of the peoples of the USSR to the victory over Germany.

1. No. \ 2. Nationality \ 3. Number in the USSR in 1939 \ 4. The number of dead military personnel \ 5 . % in the population of the USSR in 1939\ 6.% of the total number of dead military personnel \ 7.% of dead military personnel of the total number of this nationality.

1 Russian - 99.591.520 \ 5.756.000 \58.39% \66.40% \5.78% .

2 Ukrainians - 28.111.007 \ 1.377.400 \ 16.48% \ 15.89% \ 4.90%.

3 Belarusians -5.275.393\ 252.900\ 3.09%\ 2.92%\ 4.79%

4 Uzbeks- 4.845.140\ 117.900\ 2.84%\ 1.36%\ 2.43%

5 Tatars - 4.313.488\ 187.700\ 2.53%\ 2.17%\ 4.35%

6 Kazakhs- 3.100.949\ 125.500\ 1.82%\ 1.45%\ 4.05%

7 Jews - 3.028.538\ 142.500\ 1.78% \1.64% \4.71%

8 Azerbaijanis - 2.275.678\ 58.400\ 1.33%\ 1.33%\ 2.57%

9 Georgian- 2.249.636\ 79.500\ 1.32%\ 0.92%\ 3.53%

10 Armenians -2.152.860\ 83.700\ 1.26%\ 0.97%\ 3.89%

11 Chuvash -1.369.574\ 63.300\ 0.80%\ 0.73%\ 4.62%

12 Tajiks- 1.229.170\ 22.900\ 0.72%\ 0.26%\ 3.37%

13 Kirghiz- 884.615\ 26.600\ 0.51%\ 0.31%\ 3.01%

14 Nationalities of Dagestan - 857.499\ 11.100\ 0.50%\ 0.13%\ 1.29%

15 Bashkir- 843.648\ 31.700 \0.49%\ 0.37% \3.76%

16 Turkmen- 812.404\ 21.300\ 0.48%\ 0.25%\ 2.62%

17 Udmurts -606.326\ 23.200\ 0.36%\ 0.27%\ 3.83%

18 Chechen/Ingush- 500.088\ 2.300\ 0.27%\ 0.03%\ 0.46%

19 Mariytsev- 481.587\ 20.900 \0.28%\0.24%\4.34%

20 Ossetians - 354.818\ 10.700\ 0.21%\ 0.12%\ 3.02%

It is worth mentioning in a separate line the peoples of the North and such a small people as the Tuvans, who, with their courage and heroism, instilled fear in the German fascist hordes of Europe!

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to the sons and daughters of all the peoples of the USSR, including:

8182 Russians, 2072 Ukrainians, 311 Belarusians, 161 Tatars, 108 Jews, 96 Kazakhs, 91 Georgians, 90 Armenians, 69 Uzbeks, 61 Mordvins, 44 Chuvashs, 43 Azerbaijanis, 39 Bashkirs, 32 Ossetians, 18 Maris, 18 Turkmens, 15 Lithuanians , 14 Tajiks, 13 Latvians, 12 Kirghiz, 10 Komi, 10 Udmurts, 9 Estonians, 9 Karelians, 8 Kalmyks, 7 Kabardians, 6 Adyghes, 5 Abkhazians, 3 Yakuts and representatives of many other nationalities.

Among those awarded orders and medals on November 1, 1947 there were soldiers of 193 nationalities

Regiments and divisions formed in different republics of the USSR were awarded orders over 10,900 times

In the autumn of 1941, a decision was made to create a front-line press for non-Russian soldiers - front-line, army and divisional newspapers. They were published practically in all languages ​​of the union and some autonomous republics. By the end of the war on the fronts, fleets, military districts and reserve units, there were 110

The average for all the peoples of the USSR irretrievable losses of 5.08% of the total population (in 1939).

The average irretrievable losses for all the peoples of the USSR, minus the losses of the Russians, are 4.1%.

Let everyone draw their own conclusions, mine personally are as follows:

1. Indeed, the Russian people suffered combat losses in the Second World War more than any other people of the USSR (40% higher than the average value for all other peoples).

2. The contribution of other peoples is also very significant, every third dead Soviet soldier was not Russian by nationality.

3. The unexpectedly low "contribution" to the losses of Uzbeks and Turkmens, it seems to me, is explained by the fact that Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are the places where cotton grows, i.e. the main component for the production of gunpowder. They didn't call. In addition, Central Asians were massively called up to the "labor front", where the work was: "... similar to battles" ...

ON NATIONAL UNITS IN THE RED ARMY

Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan (Armenian) is credited with the following phrase: "When less than 50% of Russians remained in the division, I knew that the division needed to be disbanded."

But still:

Yes, and most of the exemplary national formations that proudly carried their own name through the entire war can only be “tied to the terrain” with a stretch. For example, in the very first formed national unit, the 201st Latvian Rifle Division, Latvians made up 51%, Russians - 26%, Jews - 17%, Poles - 3%, other nationalities - 6% (while the division consisted of 95% citizens of Latvia). By 1944, the proportion of Latvians in the division had dropped to 39%.

In fact, the only national unit that did not undergo any transformations during the war years (in numbers, national composition, self-name) was the 88th separate Chinese rifle brigade, created on the Far Eastern Front in August 1942 by the directive of the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR. However, she had to fight only three years after the moment of formation - against Japan, from August 9 to September 2, 1945.

The national formations of the republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan on average consisted of 35-50% of communists and Komsomol members, and in some units there were even more of them: in the 108th cavalry division - 50.2%, 101st cavalry division - 53.2%, 106th cavalry division - 59.2%, and in the 91st separate rifle brigade - 66.6%.

In the spring of 1942, part of the national cavalry divisions arrived in the army. These were: the 110th Kalmyk, 112th Bashkir and 115th Kabardino-Balkarian cavalry divisions and the 255th Chechen-Ingush cavalry regiment, formed on the basis of the 114th cavalry division. At the end of February 1943, the 97th Turkmen Cavalry Division began its combat path.

In the autumn of 1942, in one of the most difficult periods of the war, the 87th Turkmen, 90th and 94th Uzbek, 100th and 101st Kazakh separate rifle brigades arrived in the army. Each of them included four separate rifle battalions, a separate communications battalion, an 82-mm battalion and a 120-mm mortar battalion, an anti-tank gun battalion, a reconnaissance company, a sapper company, a machine gunners company, an ambulance company, and a trucking company.

15 national cavalry divisions and 10 national rifle brigades were disbanded during 1942, and their personnel, equipment and weapons were transferred to the national cavalry divisions and brigades that entered the active army, as well as artillery, mechanized and rifle units in need of replenishment.

Small Peoples of Siberia:

Due to their small number, it was impossible to form neither divisions nor even a regiment from them. Yakuts, Nenets or Evenki were often assigned to combined arms formations, but even there they were actually on a special account as separate combat units, albeit five people per division. By a special decree of the GKO, the small peoples of the North were not drafted into the active army, but already in the first days of the war, hundreds of volunteers from among them appeared.

So, during 1942, more than 200 Nanais, 30 Orochs, and about 80 Evenks went to the front. In total, more than 3 thousand natives of Siberia and the North fought in the army. At the same time, the Soviet command allowed only these peoples to form branches according to the clan principle. A squad or even a platoon could consist of only Kims, Onekos or Digors.

In 1941, the population of Tuva was about 80 thousand people, the country (not part of the USSR) led a semi-feudal lifestyle. But, despite the poverty and sparse population, the republic, a few days after the start of the war, decided on fraternal assistance to the USSR.

During 1941-42, more than 40 thousand horses were sent to the front from Tuva, as well as about 1 million heads of cattle. And in September 1943, a cavalry squadron of 206 people was formed in the republic.

On January 31, 1944, in the very first battle near Durazno, cavalrymen jumped out on small shaggy horses and with sabers against the advanced German units. A little later, a captured German officer recalled that the spectacle had a demoralizing effect on his soldiers, who on a subconscious level perceived "these barbarians" as Attila's hordes.

The Germans after this battle gave them the name der Schwarze Tod - Black Death. The horror of the Germans was also connected with the fact that the Tuvans, committed to their own ideas about military rules, did not take the enemy prisoner as a matter of principle.

Depending on the scale of combat losses and the number of reinforcements received, the national composition of each military unit invariably changed. Regardless of this, the warriors of Russian nationality, with rare exceptions, constituted their main core, representatives of all other peoples of the USSR fought shoulder to shoulder with them. A.P. Artemiev, who studied this problem, came to the conclusion that the share of soldiers of each nationality corresponded to its share in the total population of the USSR according to the 1939 census.

As the Soviet territory was liberated from the invaders, the proportion of soldiers from the western republics of the USSR began to grow in the Red Army.

A SCAYING QUESTION, "under the breath" as they say: were there among the peoples of the USSR those who, having fallen under the influence of propaganda or under the influence, including religious leaders, went over to the side of the enemy?

ANSWER: Yes, they were. For some peoples and even strata and social groups in the country, the Second World War was a kind of imitation of revenge on the results of the civil war. The Germans were far from stupid and played on the stupidity and lack of enlightenment of some ...

But history and VICTORY dotted the "I"

VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIES

Think for yourself that the peoples, not only those who joined the militia, but those formed in divisions, brigades and regiments, who received weapons, tanks, aircraft, artillery, did not turn the weapons they handed over against Soviet power and the tyrant Stalin. On the contrary, with the name of Stalin, they went into battle and died ...

Let's define terms and abbreviations: rifle division - sd, cavalry division - cd, rifle division of the people's militia - sdno, Moscow ... - msdno, Leningrad ... - lsdno, we add the names of the cities where they were formed to the rest.

Historians have concluded that the volunteers consisted of:

78 fighter battalions of Belarus, over 200 people's militia formations (about 33 thousand people). Over 10 thousand people fought in the besieged Mogilev.

657 - Ukraine, (As it is clear from the works of Ukrainian historians, according to far incomplete data, 1.3 million people enrolled in the people's militia of the republic, excluding Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr, Kamenetz-Podolsk and western regions, where work on creating a militia was not completed or did not even start due to the fleeting approach of the front line)

Over 1000 - Russian Federation,

63 - Moldova and Chisinau communist regiment,

About 40 detachments of the party and Soviet activists of Lithuania, etc.

In Karelia there were three regiments of the people's militia and a number of battalions;

The total number of more than 328 thousand people, of which more than 250 thousand in 1941 joined the army.

About 60 divisions of people's militia, 200 separate militia regiments, a large number of separate battalions and companies with a total strength of about 2 million people were formed.

Over 40 divisions of the people's militia (mainly in Moscow and Leningrad) in the summer and autumn of 1941 entered the fight against the enemy as independent formations.

And here are some more works in the calculations of bloggers:

During the years of the Great Patriotic War, according to Krivosheev, 37 divisions of the people's militia were formed [40 began to form, but 3 divisions received personnel numbers (Ivanovsky 332nd and 49th, Yaroslavl - 234th).

1. Moscow militia - 16 divisions (12 + 4).

July 1941 - 2nd (formerly 2nd DNO), 8th (8th DNO), 17th (17th DNO), 18th (18th DNO), 29th (7 -th DNO), 60th (1st DNO), 110th (4th DNO), 113th (5th DNO), 139th (9th DNO), 140th (13 -th DNO), 160th (6th DNO) and 173rd (21st DNO).

October-November 1941 - 129th (2nd Moscow), 130th (3rd Moscow), 155th (4th Moscow) and 158th (5th Moscow).

2. Leningrad militia - 10 divisions

June - September 1941 - 10 divisions,

in September 3 - disbanded, 7 converted into regular rifle divisions (13th, 44th, 56th, 80th, 85th, 86th and 189th).

3. Krasnodar Territory - 3 kav. divisions

(10th, 12th and 13th Kuban Cossack Cavalry Divisions - 17th Kuban Cossack Cavalry Corps).

4. Stalingrad region - 2 divisions

(one rifle without a number and the 15th cavalry division - militia corps)

5. Rostov region - Donskaya kav. division - 116th.

6. Murmansk - 186th rifle division

7. Kremenchug (Ukraine) division.

I got 34, three are not enough.

Although a militia division was still being formed in Vitebsk, more than 10,000 militia fought in Mogilev.

Only those militia formations that participated in the battles as an independent unit (in the sense not as separate units) are taken into account here. Therefore, such formations as militia corps in Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk region are not taken into account. and 7 NO divisions (Voroshilovgrad, Stalin, Sumy regions, Kirovograd).

It is widely believed that all the peoples of the USSR equally forged the victory over fascism, and it is impossible to single out or belittle any of them. However, without in any way questioning this principle, we note that it should not limit the study of state policy in relation to the nationalities of the USSR. It was the Soviet state that divided the peoples into more or less loyal to it, as well as into those more or less prepared for action in a modern war due to historically established stadial differences in their cultural development and level of civilization.

For fear of disloyalty towards the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, citizens of the USSR of nationalities that had their own states besides the USSR (first of all, states that fought with the USSR or potential opponents) were not drafted into the army: Germans, Japanese, Romanians, Hungarians, Finns, Bulgarians, Turks, as well as Greeks, Koreans, Chinese. Of these, rear units were formed, involved in various, mainly construction work for military purposes.

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and here too. Representatives of these nationalities are found among those who fought and died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, among those awarded orders and medals of the USSR. As a rule, these were volunteers accepted into the active army for reasons of confidence in their political loyalty (membership in a party, in the Komsomol, etc.).

It is curious that in this list there are no Slovaks, Croats and Italians, whose states also fought with the USSR, as well as Spaniards. The fact is that the first two nationalities were considered in the USSR as those whose states were occupied by the Nazis. In the USSR, in 1942, a Czechoslovak military unit was formed (first a brigade, at the end of the war - a corps). Croats did not separate from other Yugoslavs. The Italians and the Spaniards, who accepted the citizenship of the USSR, could only be staunch anti-fascists. There were especially many Spaniards in the USSR who emigrated after the defeat of the Republic in the civil war of 1936-1939. They were subject to conscription on a general basis; in addition, there was a very strong influx of volunteers among them.

During the war, for the same reasons of political unreliability, and also because of the insufficiently high combat effectiveness of the mass of conscripts as a whole, the conscription of representatives of a number of other nationalities was delayed. So, on October 13, 1943, the State Defense Committee (GKO) decided to release from the conscription of youth born in 1926, which began on November 15, 1943, representatives of indigenous nationalities of all the union republics of Transcaucasia and Central Asia, Kazakhstan, as well as all autonomous republics and autonomous regions of the North Caucasus. The next day, the State Defense Committee decided to start their conscription from the next November, 1944, and to the reserve, and not to the active army.

Often these decrees are misinterpreted as a cessation of the conscription of these nationalities in general. However, they clearly state that the postponement of conscription applies only to young people of the indicated year of birth. It did not extend to older ages.

In rather ambiguous conditions, there was a draft among the indigenous peoples of the Far North, Siberia and the Far East. Until the adoption of the USSR law on universal military duty of September 3, 1939, their representatives were not drafted into the armed forces. In the autumn of 1939, their first call-up took place. In some sources, one can come across statements that from the first days of the Great Patriotic War, representatives of the indigenous peoples of the North began to be called to the front. This is contradicted by references to the GKO decree, issued in the first weeks after the start of the war, on the exemption of the indigenous peoples of these regions of the RSFSR from conscription. True, there are no exact indications of the date and number of such a decision. Searching for it by name turned up no results. However, not all the titles of the GKO resolutions for 1941 have been published.

The same authors report that in a number of cases, the conscription of the indigenous peoples of the North was approached formally, and there were numerous facts of desertion of conscripts. In addition, reindeer transport battalions were formed in the Nenets National District of the Arkhangelsk Region in January 1942. There are indications of similar formations in other regions of the North. The names of many representatives of the indigenous peoples of the North who fought in the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War and were awarded orders and medals of the USSR are known. Among them are infantrymen, snipers, pilots, etc.

From all this it is legitimate to conclude that the total mandatory conscription into the active army among the small peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East - the Saami, Nenets, Khanty, Mansi, Evenks, Selkups, Dolgans, Evens, Chukchis, Koryaks, Yukaghirs, Nanais, Orochs and etc. - was not carried out (although amateur performance of this kind on the part of some local chiefs is not excluded). However, in a number of national districts, auxiliary rear units were formed from the aboriginal population on the basis of compulsory conscription, such as the already mentioned reindeer transport battalions, which were used in the specific conditions of the theater of operations - on the Karelian and Volkhov fronts. The absence of compulsory conscription was due, in addition to the insufficient level of education for modern warfare, the nomadic way of life of these peoples, the difficulties of their military registration.

At the same time, the volunteer movement among representatives of the indigenous nationalities of the North was encouraged in every possible way. Volunteers were selected in the military registration and enlistment offices before being sent to the front. Preference was given to those who met the following criteria: knowledge of the Russian language, the presence of at least primary education, and good health. Priority was also given to party and Komsomol activists from among the native peoples. The sniper qualities of professional taiga hunters were highly valued. All this created a fairly powerful influx of this category of Soviet citizens into the active army, and especially into various auxiliary units, despite the fact that its representatives were not subject to mandatory sending to the front.

In relative proportions of the total population. The material presented below completely dispels the myth of the Second World War as "the Second Civil War, when the Russian people stood up to fight the bloody tyrant Stalin and the Soviet Judeo-Kaganate."
And so the word to the author, colleague harding1989 to Anti-Soviet military formations
I decided to present to the public a couple of visual (in my opinion) graphs and a sign to make something clearer.

1) As much as 0.4% of truly Russian people stood up to fight against the Jewess (TM). To put it mildly - not impressive.
2) The most active fighters against the Soviet regime were such Slavic (and Aryan, of course) peoples as Latvians, Estonians and Kalmyks. Especially, of course, the last ones. Zip file wherever.
3) Russians do not even live up to the "norm". Those. if in the Union there were about 51.7% of the total population, then among those who fought on the side of the enemy they were somewhere around 32.3%.

Here is such a "Second Civil".

Sources:
Drobyazko S.I. "Under the banner of the enemy. Anti-Soviet formations as part of the German armed forces in 1941-1945." Moscow: Eksmo, 2005.
Population of Russia in the XX century: Historical essays. In 3 volumes / V.2. 1940-1959. M.: ROSSPEN, 2001.
Soldatenatlas der wehrmacht von 1941
Site materials demoscope.ru

Over the past couple of days, several times I have seen skirmishes between "Soviet" and "Russian" in the tape about who "won fascism."
As a categorical opponent of the dinarism of humanitarianism, he decided to suppress his emotions and turned to the primary sources.

1. Krivosheev. Russia and the USSR in the wars of the 20th century. Table 121 "Irretrievable losses"


2. All-Union census of the population of 1939. "National composition of the population by republics of the USSR"

The population of the USSR in 1939 - 170.557.093 people.
The number of irretrievable losses of the USSR Armed Forces in the Second World War - 8.668.400 people

Disclaimer:

1. Only the 20 largest nationalities of the USSR for 1939 are taken into account.
The peoples included in the table (162,883,937 people) cover 95.50% of the population of the USSR in 1939.
The losses included in the table (8.415.500 people) cover 97.08% of the losses of the USSR Armed Forces in the Second World War.

2. The Balts, Moldovan-Romanians, Poles are not included in the top 20 - due to the movement of borders in 1939.

3. Germans are not included in the top 20, you yourself understand why.

4. Mistakes are possible about the "Peoples of Dagestan", because. I'm not sure what that meant at the time.

5. 1939 and 1941-45 are not the same thing, but I think everything is within the framework of a statistical error.

6. I remind you that these are losses military personnel called to serve. Those. we consider contribution only to hostilities.

7. There are errors in connection with the occupation by the Germans in the very first months of the war of significant territories of the USSR, and as a consequence of the impossibility of a complete conscription from their territories, i.e. the figures for the losses of Ukrainians and Belarusians should be higher.

The average for all the peoples of the USSR irretrievable losses of 5.08% of the total population (in 1939).
The average irretrievable losses for all the peoples of the USSR, minus the losses of the Russians, are 4.1%.

Let everyone draw their own conclusions, mine personally are as follows:

1. Indeed, the Russian people suffered combat losses in the Second World War more than any other people of the USSR (40% higher than the average value for all other peoples).
2. The contribution of other peoples is also very significant, every third dead Soviet soldier was not Russian by nationality.
3. Those who like to talk about the "heroes of the Tashkent front" - see line No. 7 of the table.
4. The unexpectedly low "contribution" to the losses of the Uzbeks and Turkmens, it seems to me, is explained by the fact that Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are the places where cotton grows, i.e. the main component for the production of gunpowder. They didn't call. In addition, Central Asians were massively called up to the "labor front", where they also died not weakly, if anyone is interested, you can read about UZTM (Ural heavy engineering plant aka Uzbek, here is your grave)