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While I wouldnt want to honor the Red Army, most of those men were fighting for Mother Russia, not Joe Stalin. The Russians have historically been Hell for any invader, especially the winter, in spite of the generally poor quality of the doctrine, and their generals. If only on the basis of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend, they were our allies.

My Uncle got a nice little swim in the Greenland Sea (Latitude 71 degrees 05 minutes North, Longitude 13 degrees twenty minutes West), 4 November 1942, trying to guard the supplies being taken to Murmansk, Russia. He was a Naval Armed Guard on the "SS William Clark". (0f Lewis and Clark) he was lucky though, he *only* lost a couple of toes to frostbite, not even enough to get him discharged after his recovery instead they sent him to Flight Preparatory School at DePauw University. I don't think he ever became a flier, so he may have washed out and been sent to machinist school instead, since that is what he became, eventually.