Till date, if there has been one war that have shaken humanity as a whole, it was the period during the second world war which stopped only after in had claimed millions of lives all over the world. As a collective species, it is one of the strongest reminders of what few in power could do and how the manipulation of their powers could very well lead us to our extinction.
It is a widely known fact that during this very war, over 7.5 Million military personnel from the Soviet Union lost their lives which actually amount to the number of people who would die if you nuked London and 11.5 Million Chinese civilian’s deaths were also seen.