Well, couple of thing to say about that..... the Russians ertainly weren’t shy about sacrificing me. - and women - to achieve their objectives. Due to the Germans beastly conduct it was total war for them. But they did tie down sixty - seventy German divisions without which Normandy or even Italy would not have been possible or successful..... even taking Berlin cost the Russians over one hundred thousand casualties..... we could talk. About this for hours it im on my phone.... something like 20 million Soviet dead in the war.... I later worked with a German man in the 1980s... his father was taken as a POW by the Russians in the war and he didn’t come home till the 1950s.... and he was one of the lucky ones....
Very true, I have read some of Max Hastings books and the one on the Eastern Front was brutal to read and what Stalin did to make his men attack was the m most unreal think I ever read, you had no choice attack going froward or die from behind if you turned back. The Brutality of what happened on the Eastern Front has no comparison to the Western one, and yet it is the forgotten part of the war.