Actually a large portion (>60%) of the Russian deaths by Nazi hands were civilian. Over 7 million (compared to the 8.7 million military deaths) were a direct result of the Nazi extermination policy while 2.5 million died in labor camps and 4 ish million starved. (Estimates vary from historian to historian but these are the wikipedia numbers) The Russians didn’t have a high casualty count because they “didn’t care about their soldiers” and “practiced meat wave assaults.” They had a high casualty count because the Nazis wanted to exterminate them and were honestly quite good at it sometimes. You are perpuating anti-communist myths created by people intent on reducing the USSRs popularity immediately following their liberation of Europe from fascism.
I’ll give it to you that the Red Army made risky moves that got people killed unnecessarily but I think your analysis as to why is superficial and idealist.
Your argument doesn’t make sense, the casualties on the russian side were massive before capture even came into the picture.
The argument you should have gone with is that russia was starved of materials from Barbarossa, especially artillery so russia had to rely on brutally inefficient infantry tactics in the absence of proper combined arms support but even that doesn’t explain the casualness towards throwing away human lives the russian military had/has.
Yes the meatwave tropes are reductive but the reality is russia is attrocious at war and that hasn’t really changed.
Actually a large portion (>60%) of the Russian deaths by Nazi hands were civilian. Over 7 million (compared to the 8.7 million military deaths) were a direct result of the Nazi extermination policy while 2.5 million died in labor camps and 4 ish million starved. (Estimates vary from historian to historian but these are the wikipedia numbers) The Russians didn’t have a high casualty count because they “didn’t care about their soldiers” and “practiced meat wave assaults.” They had a high casualty count because the Nazis wanted to exterminate them and were honestly quite good at it sometimes. You are perpuating anti-communist myths created by people intent on reducing the USSRs popularity immediately following their liberation of Europe from fascism.
I’ll give it to you that the Red Army made risky moves that got people killed unnecessarily but I think your analysis as to why is superficial and idealist.
Your argument doesn’t make sense, the casualties on the russian side were massive before capture even came into the picture.
The argument you should have gone with is that russia was starved of materials from Barbarossa, especially artillery so russia had to rely on brutally inefficient infantry tactics in the absence of proper combined arms support but even that doesn’t explain the casualness towards throwing away human lives the russian military had/has.
Yes the meatwave tropes are reductive but the reality is russia is attrocious at war and that hasn’t really changed.