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bad manners . Overall, the USSR lost 27 million in that war, of which no more than 9 million were battle losses. The rest is the result of the German policy in the occupied territories. The Holocaust is estimated to have killed 6 million Jews. Even if we assume that they all were Soviet Jews, there are still 13 million killed in the USSR.
Yes, Germans killed many more Russians, Belorussians, Ukrainians than Jews. However, it was not done in the systematic force that the Nazis setup in Poland to kill jews. Specifically, gassing, shooting and burying jews in mass graves was a system that was well studied, adjusted, and perfected, so that the Nazis could immediately kill jews in the most efficient way. As Germany occupied territory in RUssia and further east, yes there were labor camps set up (I have been to one in Latvia which the USSR set up a memorial for), but nothing on the scale of the death camps that were used in Poland to exterminate Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other races.
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