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To better understand the scale of World War II, let's look at the numbers:
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It began on September 1, 1939 and lasted 6 years;
62 states out of 74 that existed in those years with a total population of 1.7 billion people participated;
Military operations were conducted on the territory of 40 countries, as well as on the water;
Killed from 55 to 80 million people, including the military and civilians;
Most of the victims were in the USSR: about 27 million people;
More than 70 thousand villages and villages, 32 thousand factories and plants were destroyed.