DeathUnlimited wrote:
Vilham wrote:
Darky wrote:
Actually, if a soldier kills 7 people, then gets killed, thats a 7:1 ratio, not a 1:1 ratio.
And technically, you cant work out a ratio, until the said soldier is dead, unless you work out ratio of armies that have fought in battles and lost soldiers.
Darky i dont think you quite get it... The OP said what the average KDR for a soldier is and actaully as i said on page 1 it is 1, for every soldier killed, 1 dies therefore the AVERAGE KDR = 1.
Edit - but to Psycho's point i dont know if KDR individually has increased if you discount bombs and missles and are just talking about people that can actually see their enemy and are shooting them, there are cases of people winning upwards of 50 "to the death" duals in the past, obviously the highest total KDR can be laid on Mr Adolf Hitler, he ordered the killing of millions even if he didnt pull the trigger others did just on his word, personally i blame him for those deaths and not the stupid guilable people that followed him.
I think Stalin killed more.. As he also killed 20 million russians as their leader 'cos he didn't want any1 to take his place..
Hitler was responsible for 50 million deaths. Stalin did kill millions in the Gulag, however lots of people assume that being sent to the Gulag meant death, it was more harsh than any prisioner of war camp but millions did survive it, at the end of Stalins Reign 28.7 million went into the Gulag or were political exiles.
So this is the fiqures for how many inmates there were:
Year No. of Inmates death rate (%)
1930 179,000 4.2
1931 212,000 2.9
1932 268,700 4.81
1933 334,300 15.3
1934 510,307 4.28
1935 965,742 2.75
1936 1,296,494 2.11
1937 1,196,369 2.42
1938 1,881,570 5.35
1939 1,672,438 3.1
1940 1,659,992 2.72
1941 1,929,729 6.1
1942 1,777,043 24.9
1943 1,484,182 22.4
1944 1,769,819 9.2
1945 1,460,677 5.95
1946 1,703,095 2.2
1947 1,721,543 3.59
1948 2,199,535 2.28
1949 2,356,685 1.21
1950 2,561,351 0.95
1951 2,525,146 0.92
1952 2,504,514 0.84
1953 2,468,524 0.67
Now total deaths that can be laid at Stalins door are... 6 million for a famine of his causing, Gulag deaths and exile deaths 2,749,163, 786,098 politcal executions, there are doubtless about another 3 million deaths that are not catagorised. thats a total of 12,400,000 deaths at Stalins door. Not nearly as many as Hitler killed in just a few years compared to Stalins 20 year reign.