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Rare Earth

Russia 1 700 000
France 1 385 000
Italy 482 000
Great Britain 900 000
Serbia 125 000
Belgium 102 000
Rumania 100 000
Greece 7 000
United States 116 492
Germany 1 600 000
Austria-Hungary 800 000
Turkey 250 000
Bulgaria 100 000
Total 7 667 492

The War had changed the history of the world. What would have happened to all those millions of men if they had lived? What would they have accomplished in the realms of medicine, of science, of art, of literature, of commerce? Is it possible to picture all the horrors and heartaches which those death figures represent? Can the world ever really be right again?

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