[Ancient Man]

It’s so often overlooked or understated, but the Russians lost 9 million soldiers and 20 million civilians during WWII — an incredible loss of life.

[Skywise]

Which was part of the reason Britain and the US were able to move in on Germany as easy as they did.

Hitler has seriously drained his troops by fighting the Russians.

[C19fan]

Very hard to wrap my mind around the Red Army had more KIA in say a single battle or campaign than the US lost the entire war.

[dfwgator]

It’s so often overlooked or understated, but the Russians lost 9 million soldiers and 20 million civilians during WWII — an incredible loss of life.

Which is exactly how Stalin wanted it, gave him a better bargaining chip at Yalta.

[BenLurkin]

Not nearly enough. Those jerks went on to turn the world upside down for another 40 years.

Red China, Korea, Cuba, SE Asia, Angola, Central America, etc.

All terrorized, and in many cases subjugated, by Soviet jackboots.

[bravo whiskey]

“It’s so often overlooked or understated, but the Russians lost 9 million soldiers and 20 million civilians during WWII — an incredible loss.”

And that was on top of maybe 4M deaths in WW1, 15M in Russian Civil War through 1922, 6M in the Holodomor in Ukraine, the Donbas, and Volga River basin in the ‘30s.