>>510192040>Soviet Casualties:Soviet losses are estimated to be around 1,324,823 men for the four offensive operations against the Rzhev-Vyazma salient.
However, this number only accounts for approximately 8 out of the 15 months of fighting, according to historian Svetlana Gerasimova.
Other estimates suggest total Soviet casualties for the entire series of battles could be as high as 2,000,000.
These figures include both irrecoverable losses (killed, missing, died before hospitalization) and sanitary losses (wounded and sick).
I recall a German soldier saying something to the effect of "if this is how callously they treated their own lives, then how much less would think of ours?"