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Prominent historian says WWII killed 30 Million Soviet citizens MOSCOW. May 5 (Interfax) - Official figures on the number of Soviet citizens killed in World War II are too low, said International Democracy Foundation President Alexander Yakovlev. "According to my calculations, the victims of the war include over 30 million Soviet people, although earlier the official figure was 20 million, and now it is something like 26 million," Yakovlev said in an interview with Interfax. Yakovlev, who was earlier a member of the Soviet Communist Party's Politburo and the main ideologist of perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s, said significant responsibility for this gigantic number of victims rests with Josef Stalin. People "were also being killed because of Stalin's poor leadership, as he sent people to their deaths just in order to seize some city or another before the Americans or British." Yakovlev, who fought in WWII, also blamed Stalin for "poorly preparing the country for the war, as there was one rifle for three men, and you had to wait until one man got killed to take up this rifle." Return to the Current Articles page
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