In the last 2 years I have read a great deal about the war on the Eastern Front. The sacrifices made by the Soviet Army and the atrocities by the Germans is hard reading.
Without those sacrifices D-Day could not have happened and been successful. While the casualties in Normandy were high, the losses on the Eastern Front ran into the Millions. The forgotten part of W.W. II.
Well, couple of thing to say about that..... the Russians ertainly weren’t shy about sacrificing me. - and women - to achieve their objectives. Due to the Germans beastly conduct it was total war for them. But they did tie down sixty - seventy German divisions without which Normandy or even Italy would not have been possible or successful..... even taking Berlin cost the Russians over one hundred thousand casualties..... we could talk. About this for hours it im on my phone.... something like 20 million Soviet dead in the war.... I later worked with a German man in the 1980s... his father was taken as a POW by the Russians in the war and he didn’t come home till the 1950s.... and he was one of the lucky ones....