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our attempt to calculate the Jewish losses in Russia.
It does not, however, seem that this eventual error would change the data of
the problem considerably. In any case, if there is an error, it goes in the
direction of the diminution of the calculated number of Jewish victims in
Russia.
In August 1940, the three Baltic countries, Lithuania, Latvia
and Estonia became Soviet Republics; and Lithuania acquired the region of Vilno
to the detriment of Poland. After the war, this allocation of territories was
confirmed. Finally, in June 1940, Rumania had to cede Bessarabia and North
Bukovina to the USSR, into which they were incorporated. This situation was
confirmed in 1944.
Thus the annexation of the Baltic countries and of
Bessarabia had brought definitively to the USSR in 1940 a Jewish population
whose importance was the following (the number of Jews in Estonia and in
Finnish Carelia was negligible):
| Lithuania (census of 1939), with Vilno |
269,600 |
| Memel |
9,000 |
| Latvia (census of 1935) |
93,479 |
| Bessarabia (census of 1941) |
290,000 |
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| TOTAL |
662,079 |
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| This said, let us look at the results
(abridged) of three censuses of the population of the USSR, among which that of
1959 – twenty years after the beginning of the war – when the return
of the ex-Polish populations to Poland was definitively ended and the situation
after the war stabilized. Let us add that the emigration of the Soviet Jews to
Israel began on a discernable scale only in 1971, twelve years later. |
7. Results of the Census by
Nationality of the Population of the USSR
| Population |
1926 (54) |
1939 (54) |
1959 (55) |
1959/1939 |
| Total |
147.028.000 |
170.467.000 |
208.826.000 |
1,22 |
| Russians |
77.791.000 |
99.020.000 |
114.588.000 |
1,16 |
| Ukrainians |
31.195.000 |
28.070.000 |
36.981.000 |
1,32 |
| Bielorussians |
4.739.000 |
5.267.000 |
7.829.000 |
1,49 |
| Poles |
792.000 |
627.000 |
1.380.000 |
2,20 |
| Rumanians |
279.000 |
260.000 |
2.214.000 |
8,51 |
| Estonians |
156.000 |
142.000 |
1.400.000 |
6,82 |
| Latvians |
154.000 |
127.000 |
969.000 |
11,02 |
| Lithuanians |
43.000 |
32.000 |
2.326.000 |
72,69 |
| Georgians |
1.821.000 |
2.240.000 |
2.650.000 |
1,18 |
| Armenians |
1.568.000 |
2.152.000 |
2.787.000 |
1,29 |
| Germans |
1.247.000 |
1.424.000 |
1.619.000 |
1,14 |
| Jews |
2.672.000 |
3.020.000 |
2.268.000 |
0,75 |
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