This is a little confusing, because the flag on the left is the flag of the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was (a) a confederation of countries and (b) not fully incorporated until 1955 under the Warsaw Pact. It’s a bit weird to count “prisoners under the USSR” as a political block, but only count “prisoners under the United States” as a single country. Would make more sense to count all the prisoners in all the NATO countries against their populations, as point of comparison.
Also, inevitably has to be asked, because “Black Book” assholes love doing this, but… 1950 was very close to the end of WW2. So, how many of these 2.5M prisoners were wearing little swastika armbands five years earlier?
It was (a) a federal union of national republics and (b) besides the Karelian being incoporated into the Russian in 1956 it would have all it’s constituent republics in 1940
If you want to compare with NATO you should compare the Warsaw pact as a whole to NATO, not just the Soviet Union.
This is a little confusing, because the flag on the left is the flag of the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was (a) a confederation of countries and (b) not fully incorporated until 1955 under the Warsaw Pact. It’s a bit weird to count “prisoners under the USSR” as a political block, but only count “prisoners under the United States” as a single country. Would make more sense to count all the prisoners in all the NATO countries against their populations, as point of comparison.
Also, inevitably has to be asked, because “Black Book” assholes love doing this, but… 1950 was very close to the end of WW2. So, how many of these 2.5M prisoners were wearing little swastika armbands five years earlier?
It was (a) a federal union of national republics and (b) besides the Karelian being incoporated into the Russian in 1956 it would have all it’s constituent republics in 1940
If you want to compare with NATO you should compare the Warsaw pact as a whole to NATO, not just the Soviet Union.