How many Soviet Union Soldiers served in the Army in World War 2?

Answer 1

Red Army WWII: Enlisted: 1. Private 2. Efreitor 3a. Mladshij serjant 3b. Serjant 4. Starshij serjant 5. Starshina Officers: 7a. Mladshij lejtenant 7b. Lejtenant 8. Starshij Lejtenant 9. Kapitan 10. Major 11. Podpolkovnik 12. Polkovnik 13. General-major 14. General-lejtenant 15. General-polkovnik 16. General armii 17. Marshal of the Soviet Union

Answer 2

all the soviet/ Russian forces combined in World War 2 add up to over 23.6 million but the army grew over time in world war to, all combined is about 49.5 million
During World War II, the Soviets had some 20 million men were in the army at any given time, so the number must have been up to 30 or 35 million I would say, but that's just me, because in Atlas of World War II by David Jordan and Andrew Weist, they said about the casulties "It is generally estimated that some 40 to 50 million people died in the course of the war, with the vast bulk of the casulties coming from the USSR, which may have borne as much as 50 per cent of the total." So, during World War II, up to 20 to 25 soldiers and civilians died suring World War II. I found on another WikiAnswer 26.5 Russians died, including 14,500,000 military dead. Of the number of Russia's war dead, 3.3 million died in German camps.

Answer 3

According to the information below from Wikipedia it looks like there were close to 3 milion soldiers in the Red Army during World War 2.

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Recently declassified data indicate that in 1937, at the height of the Purges, the Red Army had 114,300 officers, of whom 11,034 were dismissed.[citation needed] In 1938, the Red Army had 179,000 officers, 56% more than in 1937, of whom a further 6,742 were sacked.[citation needed] In the highest echelons of the Red Army the Purges removed 3 of 5 marshals, 13 of 15 army generals, 8 of 9 admirals, 50 of 57 army corps generals, 154 out of 186 division generals, 16 of 16 army commissars, and 25 of 28 army corps commissars.[77]

The result was that the Red Army officer corps in 1941 had many inexperienced senior officers. While 60% of regimental commanders had two years or more of command experience in June 1941, and almost 80% of rifle division commanders, only 20% of corps commanders, and 5% or fewer army and military district commanders, had the same level of experience.[78]

The significant growth of the Red Army during the high point of the purges may have worsened matters. In 1937, the Red Army numbered around 1.3 million, increasing to almost three times that number by June 1941. The rapid growth of the army necessitated in turn the rapid promotion of officers regardless of experience or training.[76] Junior officers were appointed to fill the ranks of the senior leadership, many of whom lacked broad experience.[76] This action in turn resulted in many openings at the lower level of the officer corps, which were filled by new graduates from the service academies. In 1937, the entire junior class of one academy was graduated a year early to fill vacancies in the Red Army.[76] Hamstrung by inexperience and fear of reprisals, many of these new officers failed to impress the large numbers of incoming draftees to the ranks; complaints of insubordination rose to the top of offenses punished in 1941,[76] and may have exacerbated instances of Red Army soldiers deserting their units during the initial phases of the German offensive of that year.[76]

By 1940, Stalin began to relent, restoring approximately one-third of previously dismissed officers to duty.[76] However, the effect of the purges would soon manifest itself in the Winter War of 1940, where Red Army forces generally performed poorly against the much smaller Finnish Army.