I'll never forget that when Hitler attacked Russia, that Russia got their asses kicked because of the ruthless purge of the military prior to WWII. (Something Obama must be proud of.) And let's not forget something else. Stalin let many thousands of troops lay where the fell, unburied. Rather than giving them a burial, he planted trees around them.
FUWP!
“Stalin let many thousands of troops lay where the fell, unburied. Rather than giving them a burial, he planted trees around them.”
Today, in modern Russia, there are groups that go around to WW2 battlefields that search for, find, and bury the remains of Russians that died there. They have published videos of it on Youtube for several years now.
Some of their artifact finds are astonishing. And occasionally, some of them get killed by unearthing unexploded munitions.