Do you ever wonder if the russians, looking at where Germany is today as a country, compared to their suffering and turmoil, think they may have been better off losing the war?
I’d never thought about that. Now that I have, I think the answer is, “No. They don’t.”
I can assure you that my Russian cousins in Dnieprpetrovsk (just behind the lines of the battle reported above) did and do not think so. My grandfather was born there, and one of his brothers was murdered there with his family by the National in 1941.
Thanks for posting these articles. Our society’s failure to remember the lessons of the past is at the root of most of our current problems, and these reminders from the past help us all to remember it and teach it to others.
Russians losing the War? Hitler years before laid out plan to kill everyone from Germany to the Ural Mountains. And expand Germany that far. It would have been bad for the Russians and for the rest of the World.
Losing the war would have meant destruction and slavery for them.