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“Tsar Alexander got to Paris”

The Great Patriotic War became Stalin’s finest hour as a political leader. At the end, however, there was one thing that still rankled Stalin. At the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945, he was asked by a U.S. diplomat if he felt gratified that Red Army troops had been the first to enter Berlin. Stalin’s response was a wry shrug and the comment “Tsar Alexander got to Paris”—an allusion to the 1812 rout of Napoleon from Russia.

Cost of WWII to the Soviet Union

By the end of the twentieth century, estimates of the total Russian war dead were still being revised upward. Most historians had agreed on a figure in the region of around 20 million civilian war dead (including 1 million in Leningrad alone), but recent Russian estimates vary between nearly 17 million and 24 million. The figures for military losses (including as many as 4 million Soviet prisoners of war, who either died in captivity or were murdered on their return to the Soviet Union) tend to be more consistent, at just over 8.5 million. The figures for material losses are equally staggering: 1,710 towns and 70,000 villages almost totally destroyed, 65,000 kilometers of railroads wrecked, as well as countless millions of livestock killed or confiscated and hospitals, libraries, and museums wrecked and looted. The great eighteenth-century palaces at Pavlovsk and Pushkin were reduced to blackened shells, and many of ancient Russia’s glorious churches were burned and bombed.

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