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re: At full strength who was more powerful in ww2 Germany or US?
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:25 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:25 pm to Darth_Vader
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The Red Army had by 1945 suffered over 22 million casualties. The Red Army was exhausted and it’s best formations were empty shells.
To put it in perspective for Americans - setting aside the American Civil War, which was a different time and all the big battles had horrific casualties (with both sides being Americans after all), the 2 seismic events for the U.S. were Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Pearl Harbor was about 2300 KIA and 9/11 was about 3000 killed. If Soviet KIA estimates are correct, they lost almost 6000 men (military losses) every day from June 1941 until the end of hostilities in May 1945.
About 1 in 5 Soviet boys born in 1921 was alive in 1945.
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This post was edited on 11/2/21 at 6:05 am
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Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:27 pm to Ace Midnight
Similar figures for the British male fighting population between the early 20’s and mid 40’s.
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