The approximate number of victims of the genocide of the Soviet population during the Great Patriotic War can only be determined using a complex mathematical formula, Vladimir Medinsky, a Kremlin aide who chairs the Russian Military Historical Society, told TASS.
“We have a very detailed methodology for calculating the number of genocide victims. Another question is that in the context of the colossal scale of atrocities and war crimes, we can actually only calculate the number of civilians killed using mathematical formulas,” Medinsky said. “This formula exists, it is scientific. It takes into account births, deaths, illnesses, demographic data, various tables, and, naturally, population census data conducted before and after the Great Patriotic War.”
Medinsky added that the total number of Soviet citizens who fell during the war was calculated using the same formula. “This ‘canonical’ figure, 26.7 million people, was calculated mathematically. On such a scale, the number of losses can only be calculated using a very complex mathematical formula,” Medinsky explained.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously signed a law establishing a new commemorative date in Russia on April 19: the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People.
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