scrungus [comrade/them]

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  • Iirc that was still basically true two years later on d-day as well. It’s just that they finally used enough overwhelming force (and logistics!) to get the job done.

    At about the same time, the Soviets were executing Operation Bagration opposed by the best units of the nazi armies. It was the worst defeat in German military history, and the Soviets killed or captured more nazis than the western allies even faced in Normandy.

    It was so thorough a defeat that even Churchill had this to say in August 1944:

    I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.