Not-So-Fun-Fact! Around half of Soviet irrecoverable losses happened in the last few months of 1941, when the Nazis broke their alliance of convenience with the USSR and invaded, and 1942.

After that, casualty ratios were lopsided in favor of the USSR.

Almost like the initial state of the Soviet military was a wholly avoidable condition imposed by a dictator for his own safety, not the polity’s.

Hitler hearing Stalin has just decimated the Red Army officer corps