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Incredible video on the staggering death toll in WWII and comparison to -- SixerHoo 04/07/2016 1:34PM
Reminds me of a story a German client told me -- Joey Wahoo 04/08/2016 09:10AM I don't think we as Americans fully appreciate the concepts of total war -- WahooRQ 04/08/2016 11:00AM With the very real (with the soviets almost likely at the point) -- KCHoo 04/08/2016 11:15AM Wow. Thanks for sharing. ** -- HokieDelNorte 04/08/2016 10:58AM Sobering yes. But encouraging looking at the numbers since. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/07/2016 5:08PM Thanks for posting. ** -- Hokie5150 04/07/2016 3:26PM Mind numbing! ** -- bballbill 04/07/2016 2:51PM Is this the one with the casualty bar graph showing Russia's huge total? -- Late 80s Hokie 04/07/2016 1:40PM I have a collegue at work whose grandmother was a medical student at -- Seattle .Hoo 04/07/2016 8:06PM Yes, this is the one. Very powerful. ** -- SixerHoo 04/07/2016 1:46PM War in Russia was incredible. Read that the 1942-43 Don campaign alone-- -- seanbryan 04/07/2016 2:06PM Didn't Russia treat their soldiers as very expendable? ** -- HokieDan95 04/07/2016 2:26PM The commissars ensured no retreat. -- Techer 04/07/2016 4:43PM Indeed, as did Hitler at Stalingrad and in trying to halt Zhukhov's -- seanbryan 04/07/2016 2:39PM The scene in Enemy at the Gate that has stayed with me is the -- SixerHoo 04/07/2016 2:48PM Not uncommon, I heard, in the confused response at the war's start. Moscow -- seanbryan 04/07/2016 3:13PM I've heard that story about 2 men/rifle, but never knew whether it's true. ** -- KaHOOnah 04/07/2016 5:16PM Pretty much. They had to choose between lose the men or lose the war. ** -- Late 80s Hokie 04/07/2016 2:34PM Have you seen the movie Enemy at the Gate? ** -- SixerHoo 04/07/2016 2:14PM Yes, and participated in the tourist event in Volgagrad where they walk -- seanbryan 04/07/2016 2:27PM Russian snipers with English accents ** -- nyhoo 04/07/2016 2:26PM
