Since we’ve recently learned that the value of a lost life is inversely proportional to the population of the country, we need a way to concisely and conveniently discuss tragedies and their relative values. Using 9/11 as the defining constant, we define one (1) Bush as the death of 3000/285,000,000 ≈ 0.00105% of a nation’s population. Perhaps easier to remember, 1 kB (kiloBush) is approximately equal to the death of 1% of the population.
Some examples for reference:
- 9/11 is 1 Bush (of course)
- total annihilation of a countries population is 100 kiloBushes (the largest value possible under relativistic models)
- 1 man in Vatican City choking to death on a hotdog is approx. 124 Bushes.
These changes will be voted on in the 2024 General Conference on Weights and Measures and are expected to pass unanimously.
Wikipedia puts the population of the USSR in 1941 at 190-200 million: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union. Are you talking about Russia specifically? Doesn’t the 25 million number include people from other SR as well?
Yes, although dispropoprtionately from Ukrainian and Belorussian SSRs.