Lets see...
(Roughly) 28,000,000 men, women, and children killed in the CCCP during WWII, presumably excluding purges, roundups and other crimes against the citizenry by the soviet.
450,000 US KIA
With the German government reporting that its records list 4.3 million dead and missing military personnel. Another 1 million were conscripts from other countries.
28 million military, including the civilian numbers suggest that the entire soviet union military and civilian populations were engaged in the fight and in the support of countering German advances.
Catastrophically stunning.
It’s been a long time since Mr. Herzog’s AP World History class in 11th grade, but IIRC it was something like one rifle for every four fighters on the Eastern Front.
As soon as a guy with a rifle fell during a charge, one of the others would drop their pitch fork and pick up the rifle. Of course the officers in the rear had guns in case anybody with a farm implement decided not to join the charge.
I certainly like to read WW II, but I have been remiss in reading about the Eastern Font war and I intend to read more. I think author Max Hastings has some books on the subject.