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Within a single week, German forces advanced 200 miles into Soviet territory, destroyed nearly 4,000 aircraft, and killed, captured, or wounded some 600,000 Red Army troops. By December of 1941, German troops were within sight of Moscow, and they laid siege to the city. But, when the notorious Russian winter (nicknamed "General Winter") set in, German advances came to a halt. By the end of this, one of the largest, deadliest military operations in history, Germany had suffered some 775,000 casualties. More than 800,000 Soviets had been killed, and an additional 6 million Soviet soldiers had been wounded or captured." Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, July 24, 2011. Some Soviet sources claim that even Joe Steel had an emotional breakdown during the German onslaught.

Yeah... They kicked the door in. But the house didn't fall. Like Hitler predicted. He was wrong. Instead he got drawn into a front where 7 of every 8 Germans wounded or killed in the war would receive their injuries.

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The Third Reich had a population of 90 million. 775 thousand is 0.86% of Germans. 6.8 million is 3.45% of Soviet population! The Germans inflicted over 4X the comparable casualties!

The Soviets had the will and population to throw wave after wave into certain death. The Germans didn't. You can argue this til you're blue in the face. Doesn't change the fact that stalin would watch every single one of his citizens die before he gave in. This is something Germany never had a chance to stop.

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The Victory the Germans to Death" didn't start until the following year (1942) when Hitler the "military genius" (sarcasm) wasted German offensive power in attacks into the vast and non strategic Soviet lands: Stalingrad 1942-1943 and Kursk 1943.

The start date of the war of attrition between the Soviets and the nazis was the day the Germans marched east. Hitler just didn't realize it until it was too late. Any and every war with Russia is just this. A war of attrition. And it's a war Russia can't lose. Not with a totalitarian government