If the Soviets shed more blood than we did, it’s because they weren’t as well led. The Soviets did not have the best of brass because they killed off the best ones in purges, leaving a bunch of George Armstrong Custers to fight a real war. They were lucky they didn’t get overrun in the first months of the war.
Well they’re lucky Stalin didn’t kill off Zhukov.
Of course that didn’t stop Zhukov from getting demoted by Stalin after the war....he committed the worst crime imaginable in Stalin’s Russia, he was too popular.