>>17772269
>many of these casualties were merely wounded
yes... that's what casualties means. picrel very clearly says 8 million combat deaths, 7 million disease deaths, and 14 million wounded.
>well they had a lot of manpower
the USSR has 170 million in 1939, 30/170 = 17%, 17% of of your population becoming casualties is a big deal even and especially because of the size of their population.