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Originally Posted by 75Sv1
The Russians lost 1 million combatants to Finland, 8 million combatants overall and 23 million total with civilians. How's that for strategy?
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I am not pro Russian. The German field troops mass killed civilians. Plus Russian prisoners of war. So the Russians were going to take heavy losses to break the German war machine.
Stalin purged the majority of the Russian army officers in 1937-38? So the poorly led Russian troops took unreasonable losses in the early part of the invasion. Perhaps it was the same in Finland.
How the Russians restored a good working command structure as fast as they did is probably a story in itself.