"Robert Green" wrote in
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"Han" wrote in message
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harry wrote in news:e72c76bb-f41a-4533-bec6-
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The Russians sacrificed more than anyone else in WW2.

Sometimes by their own ...

Wikipedia says the Russians executed an entire division's worth of
soldiers under their "If you retreat you will be shot by your own
troops" doctrine. There are a lot of sites devoted to the USSR -
German conflicts populated by (fewer and fewer) surviving members of
the battles from both sides. The Sov historians categorically deny
that anything but sporadic "retreat killings" occurred.

But I temper those comments with my ex-boss Colonel's belief that
fragging in the Vietnam more was a totally mythological concept and
that US soldiers didn't kill their officers. The loss of even a
division to retreat killings hardly makes a dent in the rest of the
Soviet deaths. They lost what's equivalent to the number of people
living in all Australia with the population of NYC thrown in on top of
that.

They got creamed and that made them a very wary country after WWII,
determined to never suffer the same fate again. It was the motivation
behind the creation of the Iron Curtain to a large extent. They
wanted a buffer zone of countries between them and Europe to slow down
any land-based invasion.

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Bobby G.

I did say sometimes ...

Yes, among the Allies and occupied countries, the Soviet Union lost the
largest percentage of their population in WWII,followed by the
Netherlands ...

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Best regards
Han
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