>>You still refuse to give millions of dead Soviet soldiers
credit for what they did for the world. Now that is serious.
I know several survivors of Stalingrad. Long before they
were captured by the Nazis, they understood that if they
were captured, it would mean a death sentence to them on
repatriation. Hence they did all they could to end up in a
Western DP camp after the war, and stay as far away from the
USSR as they could.
Certainly the Soviets fought bravely and suffered immensely.
Yet it should also be noted that they were fighting under
extreme coercion. At Kursk for example, which Irene or
whoever cited, tankmen were handcuffed into their tanks,
their radios only capable of receiving signals.
Would they have fought as bravely if they knew being
captured wasn't a death sentence? If they had conditions
where minor wounds took them out of the action? If they
could claim shell shock? Would they? Would anyone?
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