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How did the Soviet Union lose such a unbelievable amount of soldiers during WW2?

Jul 02, 2008 by Leard | Posted in History

I believe it was 10 million, 65% of allied deaths were Soviet and if you include civilians, 16% of the population were killed.

Well when you send a flock together of unarmed, untrained, unfed, and unclothed peasants against Panzer tanks that tends to happen.

I once heard an anecdote about a convo. between Zhukov (the leader Russian general) and one of the generals from the Western allies. Apparently the Western general was showing to Zhukov all these imagine contraptions that he had to detect and clear minefields. Zhukov commented that the best way to clear a minefield was to march the infantry over it.

Mike | Jul 02, 2008

Why were so many Soviet Union soldiers killed during WWII?

May 20, 4429 by Chaos Mage X | Posted in History

Was it because the USSR had lowly technology compared to the German Nazis? Or was it shortage of proper clothing during the cold winter? Or shortage of eats? Maybe all three and even more facts? If you can confirm these three and more, please tell me. And not only that but what about the civilian deaths? What caused these factors? Thank you for your time.

The fight of Lenningrad may account for most of it...After the "Congress of Victors" in 1934, Stalin became more and more paranoid about members of his dinner party. He begins to have those "suspected of disloyalty" assassinated or taken to the Gulag, where few will return. He beings to rebuff trials for party leaders and when all is said and done, nearly every leader of the origional Bolsheviks has been killed. The secret observe, later to be known as the KGB patroled the communities and military, listening for tratiors. This time of mass execution will be known as "[The Terrific Terror]." 9.5 million people are reported to be gone, eitherexiled or in work camps or outmoded.

Stalin also terrorizes his top military brass. Nearly 37,000 officers are executed or dismissed.

The Germans do attact the Soviets and Stalin gives orders to "Die, But Do Not Refuge." There is a bloody battle in Lenningrad where nearly 1.5 million die. The Soviets take a Victory in the battle of Stalingrad, which is a turning juncture the the overall war.

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Jeremy Scahill is a Tool

Unbendable ideologies suck. If I haven't made it abundantly clear in earlier posts, I hate ideological thinking. What do I carry by this? Ideological thinking is when a person clings so tightly to their preconceived worldview that they shape all situations to this paradigm even if facts say otherwise. Upsetting facts are ignored. Convenient facts are exaggerated and given undo prominence.

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is a whole case of this type of thinking. Although I found his book on Blackwater and private military contracting (Blackwater: The Rise of the Creation's Most Powerful Mercenary Army) insightful and important, his views on U.S. foreign policy, especially when it comes to Afghanistan and Pakistan (or Af-Pak for impecunious), conform to a familiar anti-imperialist ideology.

In Scahill's mind, almost everything the U.S. engages in abroad is evil and imperialistic: Facts be damned!

And facts have charitably been damned by Scahill when it comes to Af-Pak, as we can see from his June 5th appearance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. The full clips of his time on the show can be found here, here, here, and here.

What follows are the statements I take controversy with. I'll be clear here, however. There are legitimate arguments and viewpoints that can come out against the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and policies toward and within Pakistan. Yet, Scahill's viewpoints on this of importance are simply untrue. This is what infuriates me more than anything: not the position in and of itself but rather how that position is sustained and defended.

So let's get started!

Scahill said "Bombings in Pakistan with these drones are indiscriminately debilitating civilians....