Hollywood cast Leslie Howard as the hero in a 1930's film called "British Agent" despite the fact that his function was to continue the war of loanshark capitalism between the militaristic Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and imperial colonizers Britain and France and to attempt to dissuade the new Communist government from declaring peace with Germany.

Howard wanted the continued slaughter of Russian, British and French men and was upset that with the new Soviet Union's withdrawal, more pressure would be placed by Germany against France and England. Czar Nicholas had caused 1.7 million Russians to die in battle while Clemenceau and others in France caused 1.3 million deaths. The czar caused 4.9 million men to be wounded while France had 4.3 million wounded men.. The UK lost nearly a million men.

This capitalist war would end with extremely harsh reparations for Germany, reparations which planted the seeds of World War II. Millions of men died in fratricidal idiocy.

In World War II, Germany would again war with the Soviet Union, which lost 26 million people in ridding the world of Nazi racism and brutality.

Despite chickenhawk radio jocks' frequent attempts to ridicule France's participation in WW2, the French had more casualties than the US.

Footnote:

http://secondworldwar.co.uk lists the following WW2 deaths 61 million

Soviet Union* 8,668,000 16,900,000 25,568,000 China 1,324,000 10,000,000 11,324,000 Germany 3,250,000 3,810,000 7,060,000 Poland 850,000 6,000,000 6,850,000 Japan 1,506,000 300,000 1,806,000 Yugoslavia 300,000 1,400,000 1,700,000 Rumania* 520,000 465,000 985,000 France* 340,000 470,000 810,000 Hungary* 750,000 Austria 380,000 145,000 525,000 Greece* 520,000 Italy 330,000 80,000 410,000 Czechoslovakia 400,000 Great Britain 326,000 62,000 388,000 USA 295,000 295,000 Holland 14,000 236,000 250,000 Belgium 10,000 75,000 85,000 Finland 79,000 79,000 Canada 42,000 42,000 India 36,000 *** 36,000 Australia 39,000 39,000 Spain** 12,000 10,000 22,000 Bulgaria 19,000 2,000 21,000 New Zealand 12,000 12,000 South Africa 9,000 9,000 Norway 5,000 5,000 Denmark 4,000 4,000

First World War Casualties

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/FWWcasualties.htmne


Country

Men mobilised


Killed



Wounded



POW’s + missing



Total casualties



casualties in % of men mobilised



Russia



12 million

1.7mill

4.9mill

2.5mill

9.15mill

76.3

France



8.4 mill

1.3mill

4.2mill

537,000

6.1mill

73.3

GB + Empire



8.9mill

908,000

2mill

191,000

3.1mill

35.8

Italy



5.5mill

650,000

947,000

600,000

2.1mill

39

USA



4.3mill

126,000

234,000

4,500

350,000

8

Japan



800,000

300

900

3

1210

0.2

Romania



750,000

335,000

120,000

80,000

535,000

71

Serbia



700,000

45,000

133,000

153,000

331,000

47

Belgium



267,000

13,800

45,000

34,500

93,000

35

Greece



230,000

5000

21,000

1000

27,000

12

Portugal



100,000

7222

13,700

12,000

33,000

33

Total Allies



42million



5 million



13million



4 million



22million



52%





Germany



11million

1.7million

4.2million

1.1million

7.1million

65

Austria



7.8million

1.2million

3.6million

2.2million

7 million

90

Turkey



2.8million

325,000

400,000

250,000

975,000

34

Bulgaria



1.2million

87,000

152,000

27,000

266,000

22

Total

Central Powers



22.8mill

3.3million

8.3million

3.6million

15 million

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