By the end of 2025, Russia’s total irrecoverable losses in the war are projected to reach 1.2 million—a figure unseen since World War II. Yet in the Kremlin, these unprecedented casualties are met with calm resolve. Russia appears willing to continue the war, losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers each year.
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Secondly, no, USSR was not necessarily any different from any country doing ‘human wave’ attacks.
The “human wave” was Hitler’s invented excuse for the defeat of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad after having promised the German people for weeks that the city was sure to be captured “very soon”. In truth, they were defeated by a Soviet pincer counter attack.
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