RUSSIAN-OCCUPIED COUNTRIES: vastly better outcomes than in other European-colonized countries







Occupation and mass avoidable mortality.



There was significant avoidable death associated with Russian occupation during the Soviet Union (USSR) era but, as detailed below,  the Russian-occupied countries as a whole had vastly better outcomes than the countries occupied by other European powers.

The summary data provided below is of post-1950 excess mortality/ 2005 population (both in millions, m) and expressed as a percentage (%); this ratio is given for the Occupier (Russia), for each country occupied and as a total for all the countries subject to Russian occupation post-1945 (ignoring Germany and Japan) – note that this ratio is 8.4% for Russia and 13.9% for the Russian Empire (whereas it is 2.8% for the UK and 32.4% for the British-occupied countries).

Countries with a substantial  Muslim population are in bold.

Russia [11.897m/141.553m = 8.4%] – Afghanistan* [16.609m/25.971m = 64.0%], Armenia [0.091m/3.043m = 3.0%], Azerbaijan [0.428m/8.527m = 5.0%], Belarus [0.375m/9.809m = 3.8%], Bulgaria [0.769m/7.763m = 9.9%], Czech Republic [1.087m/10.216m = 10.6%], Estonia [0.166m/1.294m = 12.8%], Georgia [0.281m/5.026m = 5.6%], Hungary [1.363m/9.784m = 13.9%], Kazakhstan [0.983m/15.364m = 6.4%], Kyrgyzstan [1.041m/5.278m = 19.7%], Latvia [0.288m/2.265m = 12.7%], Lithuania [0.143m/3.401m = 4.2%], Moldova [0.254m/4.259m = 6.0%], Mongolia [0.640m/2.667m = 24.0%], Poland [0.677m/38.516m = 1.8%], Romania [1.133m/22.228m = 5.1%], Slovakia [0.130m/5.411m = 2.4%], Tajikistan [0.924m/6.356m = 14.5%], Turkmenistan [0.817m/5.015m = 16.3%], Ukraine [5.279m/47.782m = 11.0%], Uzbekistan [3.585m/26.868m = 13.3%], total = 37.063m/266.843m = 13.9% .  [1].

