According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia , how many Germans died ?
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia ( ; transliterated " Bolshaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya " ) is one of the largest and most comprehensive Russian language encyclopedias in the world , issued by the Soviet state from 1926 to 1990 , and again since 2002 ( under the name " Bolshaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya " or " Great Russian Encyclopedia " ) .