A country who’s leaders used their own and captured people as cannon fodder in a war of attrition should not be celebrated.
Even Obama would be a brilliant general if he ordered his armies of millions to slaughter until the other guy ran out of ammo. If they didn’t get shot and killed by German guns, there was a Mosin Nagant aimed at the back of their heads.. the generals too.
Hooray!!!
That is just not true.
Zhukov, was one of the best generals of the war.
Bare in mind that HE did defeated Manstein, Guderian and all others.
The war was won by sole strenght of soldier. By the heart of the soldier.
If US lost 50,000 men in Vietnam and still suffering from that loss- just imagine battle with 2,000,000 men involved.
That kind of battle was newer seen on the West.