Przelotnyptak1
9 May 2025
History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]
You would be right if you used real, honest numbers, but let us assume your sources are honest, you are forgetting the difference between the soldiers killed by Russians
and those killed by the West. In the West, most of the dead were highly trained specialists, submariners, pilots, and sailors. In other words, there is a difference between foot soldiers and, let's say, pilots. So it is not one for one, there is no equation between a wiped-out battalion and a submarine at the bottom of the ocean
numerically, similar in numbers, but in importance, more like a thousand to one. Russians were heroic and fierce fighters, deserving all the credit, but the Western and Eastern fronts were like comparing apples and oranges
If you compare the results - 4,000,000 Germans killed by the USSR vs 770,000 killed by the West - those, too, show who won WW2 - with Russia killing 85% of the total.
You would be right if you used real, honest numbers, but let us assume your sources are honest, you are forgetting the difference between the soldiers killed by Russians
and those killed by the West. In the West, most of the dead were highly trained specialists, submariners, pilots, and sailors. In other words, there is a difference between foot soldiers and, let's say, pilots. So it is not one for one, there is no equation between a wiped-out battalion and a submarine at the bottom of the ocean
numerically, similar in numbers, but in importance, more like a thousand to one. Russians were heroic and fierce fighters, deserving all the credit, but the Western and Eastern fronts were like comparing apples and oranges