>>17906722
>lost to the USSR in 1941
The Red Army suffered 120% casualties in 1941 and STILL required Lend Lease to barely hold onto Moscow.
Everyone believed the USSR was finished, it’s a big reason why the USSR received Lend Lease because the US was certain they would go down without US help.
They were right. We know the Soviets offered peace and were considering throwing in the towel.
As late as 1944 Stalin was considering separate peace.
The constituent countries of the USSR to this day still haven’t recovered while Ethnic Germans in spite of 80 years of liberalism are more numerous today than they were in 1939.
Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, still have not recovered their pre-war populations.
I feel like Slavic Nationalists don’t realize just how hard Germany hit them.