When you are a slave under a Communist dictator you fight to the death, there isn’t any choice.
If one only looks at who lost more men in a war, then the Communists win that measure every time, they can fight and possibly live or protest or retreat and be destroyed.
Those Soviet soldiers who were taken prisoner and survived the Nazi prison camps were sent to the Gulag as soon as they were repatriated, as Solzhenitsyn has described in his writings.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin
Battle of BerlinResult: Soviet victory
• Death of Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi officials
• Unconditional surrender of German garrison in Berlin on 2 May
• Capitulation of Germany on 8 May
• End of World War II in Europe
The unconditional surrender of the German garrison in Berlin happened over two months before the arrival of the U.S. Army.
V-E day is celebrated on May 8th, when Germany capitulated to the Soviets.
Eisenhower became the Commander of the Alied Expeditionary Force in 1944. The Soviet Union was not part of the AEF.
The U.S. took the surrender of Japan.