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 :*For Civilian Losses: A Doctor of History Viktor Zemskov said farewell to an old myth (also shared by general Krovisheev - may be excluded if regarded as WP:BLP), that civilian losses outnumbered military casualties.  He labels as an absurd an idea of the so called ""special nature of the Great Patriotic War, in which civilian casualties are far superior than the military ones”  Виктор Земсков «К вопросу о масштабах людских потерь в Великой Отечественной войне (В поисках истины) — глава книги «Умылись кровью""? Ложь и правда о потерях в Великой Отечественной войне»,  Victor Zemskov ""On Scale of Human Losses in Great Patriotic War (Seeking Truth) — a head of his coauthored book ""Having Washed with Blood? Lies and Truth about Losses in Great Patriotic War”, Moscow, 2012, ISBN 978-5-699-58297-6, p. 251, http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0559/analit01.php  The dead soldiers, of course, prevailed among direct losses of human lives, writes Victor Zemskov. He doubts the data of the Extraordinary State Commission of 1946, which defined the number of those killed and tortured by the Nazis civilians as being  6.8 million. Victor Zemskov maintains, these victims were ""over 3 million"", as they included refugees and evacuated persons, who later returned home. The author also calls a “concoction” reports, that more than 2 million  Soviet citizens deported to work in Germany died there  Ibid., p. 253.. He believes an acceptable figure is 200,000, the sum derived from German monthly reports on mortality of Eastern laborers. Victor Zemskov permits the minimal civilian losses as being 4.5 million, including dead combatants of volunteer units, minutemen’s units not turned into regular ones, vigilante groups of the cities, extermination squads, combat groups of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, special units of various civilian ministries and their departments with casualties of the partisans to be included in the overall statistics of victims in the occupied territories. Въ   "