who suffered the most casualties in world war 2
World War II casualties More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union. The government of the Russian Republic in the 1990s published an estimate of USSR losses at 26.6 million,[3][4] including 8 to 9 million due to famine and disease.[5][4][6] The People's Republic of China as of 2005 estimated the number of Chinese dead at 20 million.[7]