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Skeptical-_- t1_j3dspj6 wrote

Reply to comment by PrusPrusic in The Forgotten Story of the American Troops Who Got Caught Up in the Russian Civil War by Novel_Finger2370

"Taking into account the awful performance of the Western Allies against the Nazis on the western front it is entirely justified to consider the Soviet Army superior in the immediate post-war period to any other army in the world.Conflating the Soviet Army in 1945 with the Russians in 2022 is so stupid that I will, sadly, have to assume that you are terminally American." - PrusPrusic reply which seems gone now... I replied but also don't see that so here it is

wow you really don't know some basic ww2 stats if that's your argument. The Soviets killed a lot of Germans but for everyone killed they lost a (2-4 maybe more) of their own. They were also on the defensive taking the majority of these losses….Yes soviets/russia killed a lot of germans no is saying they did not but it was anything but performant and left them drained with major negative effects on the population still seen to this day. To claim they were somehow the best/strongest in the world right after taking such losses is crazy and ignores basic realities inside and outside of the USSR.

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PrusPrusic t1_j3duxab wrote

So basically you're trying to tell me that an army's greatness is measured in K/D ratio? That's so silly that I don't really feel the need to continue this discussion. The Red Army could've rolled into Lisabon in the autumn of '45.

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Skeptical-_- t1_j3e70z7 wrote

>So basically you're trying to tell me that an army's greatness is measured in K/D ratio?

Not at all.

You're the one who brought up performance. Which I called out as that’s an odd approach considering the well known performance issues of the soviets. So it pointed to extreme bias and or misinformation.

My original comment also included “By war's end the Soviet armed forces numbered 11,365,000 officers and men” - "In 1945 as the defeat of Germany and Japan neared, U.S. military personnel numbered 12,209,238”. That’s just pure numbers of people when you factor in equipment/training/allies the difference is stark.

"The Red Army could've rolled into Lisabon in the autumn of '45." 👀

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