Meat for the grinder.
USSR’s strategy for taking Berlin was apparently to just send people to die until either they won or they had enough food to person ratio to hold a front again.
Much more than that. Soviet Deep Battle had been well-refined, and the k/d ratio for the Soviet military was positive from '43-'45.
By 1943 allied forces were running regular bombing runs across Berlin, which probably helped bump up Russia’s numbers, but their casualty rate was still comparably higher.
According to the Podolsky Report and the Krivosheev study the number of deaths for the soviet armed forces was 23,635,000 between 1941-1945, though Joseph Stalin’s regime tried to repress that information and claimed only 7,000,000.
By 1943 allied forces were running regular bombing runs across Berlin, which probably helped bump up Russia’s numbers,
No, I’m talking numbers on the front, not the strategic bombing campaigns, whose casualties are counted separately and are largely civilian.
but their casualty rate was still comparably higher.
… not by any considerable degree (apparently my initial assertion of a positive k/d ratio doesn’t come into play until '44-'45). From '43-'45 the Sovs had about 4.5 million KIA on the Eastern Front, while the Nazis had ~3.5 million, with around 0.5 million contributed by their allies. 4.5 million vs. 4 million is hardly a stunning imbalance, especially when on the offensive.
According to the Podolsky Report and the Krivosheev study the number of deaths for the soviet armed forces was 23,635,000 between 1941-1945, though Joseph Stalin’s regime tried to repress that information and claimed only 7,000,000.
… the Krivosheev study claims only 8.5 million dead or missing. 22 million is the number of wounded and sick, the vast majority of whom returned to duty.
