gee.. those dumb russians..
"...Bagration was by any measure one of the largest single operations of the war. By the end of August 1944, it had cost the Germans ~670,000 dead, missing, wounded and sick, from whom 160,000 were captured, as well as 2,000 tanks and 57,000 other vehicles. In the operation, the Red Army lost ~170,000 dead and missing (765,815 totally, including wounded and sick plus 5073 Poles),[46] as well as 2,957 tanks and assault guns...
wait a minute, that can''t be right
670,000 German dead versus 170,000 Soviet dead...
Comrade Stalin
Sure any one can cherry pick but I rather show facts. The fact that the total Soviets killed by Germany war machine was almost twice what the German army lost.
Thanks for playing. Game. Set. Match.
During the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army conscripted 29,574,900 men in addition to the 4,826,907 in service at the beginning of the war. Of this total of 34,401,807 it lost
6,329,600 KIA,
555,400 deaths by disease and 4,559,000 MIA (most captured). Of these
11,444,100, however, 939,700 rejoined the ranks in the subsequently liberated Soviet territory, and a further 1,836,000 returned from German captivity. Thus the grand total of losses amounted to 8,668,400.[48] This is the official total dead, but other estimates give the number of total dead up to almost 11 million men, including 7.7 million killed or missing in action and 2.6 million POW dead (out of 5.2 million total POWs), plus 400,000 paramilitary and Soviet partisan losses.[49] The majority of the losses, excluding POWs, being ethnic Russians (5,756,000), followed by ethnic Ukrainians (1,377,400).[48] However, as many as 8 million of the 34 million mobilized were non-Slavic minority soldiers, and around 45 divisions formed from national minorities served from 1941 to 1943.[50]
The German losses on the Eastern Front comprised an estimated
3,604,800 KIA within the 1937 borders plus 900,000 ethnic Germans and Austrians outside the 1937 border (included in these numbers are men listed as missing in action or unaccounted for after the war)[51] and 3,576,300 men reported captured (total 8,081,100); the losses of the German satellites on the Eastern Front approximated 668,163 KIA/MIA and 799,982 captured (total 1,468,145). Of these 9,549,245, the Soviets released 3,572,600 from captivity after the war, thus the grand total of the
Axis losses came to an estimated
5,976,645.[52] As regards prisoners of war, both sides captured large numbers and had many die in captivity - one recent British [53] figure says 3.6 of 6 million Soviet POWs died in German camps, while 300,000 of 3 million German POWs died in Soviet hands.[54]
11 million is a bigger number than 6 million last time I checked.
