“The Soviet Union lost about 27 million soldiers and civilians — about 60 times more than America lost in the war.”
Yep, Stalin was willing to take casualties for sure. We (US) lost about 400k in both theaters. The American public would never have accepted anything close to the kind of casualties that the Soviets took. In fact, the prospect of taking 250,000 casualties should we had invaded Japan was a big factor in the decision to drop the two nukes.
Mind boogling The Russians lost more soldiers in individual battles than the US lost in the entire war.