How do we get a realistic estimate of deaths in a war if one side intentionally does not make their figures known?

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How do we get a realistic estimate of deaths in a war if one side intentionally does not make their figures known?

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Educated guess work, in ww2 russian death toll is somewhere between the official toll 20 million durring the soviet era and the estimated 26 million was the new official number post soviet but some scholars place it over 40 million, representing about 1/3 of the Russian population

Edit: u/trulyindependent asked for a source and i looked into it, i was off by ~half on both figures so i changed it im sorry

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