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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I will just say one thing about WWII in general and its bleakness:
I don't want to take anything away from the sacrifices that American, British, and Western European people made during that war, but World War II was really fought on the Eastern Front. And while actions like Dunkirk, Overlord and The Battle of Bulge were dangerous and harrowing, they really pale in comparison to what happened on the other side of the continent.
If you were to take the Eastern Front, remove it from WWII and make it its own war, it is the largest in human history and deadlier than WWI on its own. Seven out of eight Germans that died did so on the Eastern Front.
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A bit off topic, how did Russia become a superpower and maintain such prominence throughout the bloodshed?
It's a large country but seems a vast portion of it is a barren wasteland. What isn't a wasteland suffers some of the harshest winters known to man. They've been involved in some of the bloodiest wars. They've lost a shit ton of working age men.