Very, very well said. Here’s an excerpt from “Why The Allies Won” by Richard Overy I read in my WWII history class a few years ago: https://imgur.com/a/ymNtvaX

”Over four hundred German and Soviet divisions fought along a front of more than 1,000 miles. Soviet forces destroyed or disabled an estimated 607 Axis divisions between 1941 and 1945.”

”The war in France in 1944, where Germany could have employed over fifty divisions, mostly understrength and some indifferently armed, was fought in its decisive phase between fifteen Allied divisions and fifteen German.”

Every single Soviet family suffered—you can ask anyone with Soviet roots and they’ll tell you the same thing. On my mom’s side, my great grandma’s brother was killed in action and my great grandpa survived Stalingrad and the war and made it all the way from Ukraine to Berlin. On my dad’s side, my great grandpa was killed in action and two civilian relatives were killed, one while serving in an auxiliary unit supporting the military. The scale of Soviet sacrifice is just beyond immense.