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To: henkster

IIRC the Soviets lost more people just at Stalingrad than all the other allies lost everywhere.


29 posted on 02/08/2017 5:56:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Soviets and the Germans each lost more at Kursk than the US lost in the entire war, Europe and Pacific.


35 posted on 02/08/2017 6:16:32 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The average life expectancy of a Russian soldier in Stalingrad was about 24 hours. At a state dinner in Moscow, Admiral Ernest J. King offered a toast to “the heroic fighting spirit of the Red Army.” Stalin replied “It takes a brave man to not be a hero in the Red Army.”


36 posted on 02/08/2017 6:16:54 PM PST by henkster
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