It’s still mind-blowing that as badly the Nazis were beaten, they still lost 100,000 soldiers taking Berlin.
“It’s still mind-blowing that as badly the Nazis were beaten, they still lost 100,000 soldiers taking Berlin.”
And that was against a German force that was vastly outnumbered and outgunned and heavily laden with old men and kids.
Russian military doctrine was and still is focused on massed forces, and casualties be damned.
In WWII a Russian general was asked why he sent poorly-armed infantry across fields, ahead of the armor. He said if the field was mined, it was much cheaper to lose some soldiers than a tank.