How the fuck the Soviet Union had some many casualities in WW2?

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>>2416649

>>2416649

An enormous amount of them were in the first 5 months of the war. The Soviets had some really, really bad doctrine when it came to warfare early in the 1940s, and they thought the best way to deter and defeat a threat from the west was to pile up their entire army (or just about) on the border, and threaten to counterattack at the first sign of trouble.

Turns out, that got pretty much their entire border force pocketed up and swallowed, and then you had about 4 months of running and fighting and regrouping and falling back and fighting some more as they tried to patch up something resembling a coherent line.

>>2416649
>>2416649

Because Stalin took it upon himself to kill or imprison every single Red Army officer with the slightest morsel of talent or ambition when he was cementing his power. It's hard to fight a war right after you just eliminated everybody who had any clue how to fight.

POWs

>>2416649
>what are civilian deaths

>>>/pol/

>>2416681

>What is reading comprehension?

>>2416649

zerg rush

>>2416649
Its prob much less than what it could have been had Stalin got rid of Tukhachevsky a few years earlier.

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>>2416649
>only 3 million for Germany
German military deaths were actually more like 5 million