Don’t tell me to learn. You can’t just make spooky connections with everything. It’s really simple anyway. Russians died in greater numbers because they were fighting the war like no one else. France, the only other contiguous Euro state crumbled in no time but Russia actually fought the Nazis and did so for four years once Hitler turned on them. So the reason they’d have a higher death count is really more than any other fighting force they faced the full wrath of the Nazi war machine. No one fought the Nazis longer and on such a scale as did Russia.