[ZenGum]

I read somewhere that of those Russian males born in 1922, 99% were dead before 1945.

Yes, ninety-nine percent.

Nearby age groups suffered similar losses.

Partly the Ukrainian drought/famine, partly Stalin's death camps, partly Hitler's death camps, and partly the war itself.

Simply staggering. But when we think about what a bunch of paranoid/aggressive nutters the soviets were in the cold war, keep this background in mind.