Today i learned that in the Battle of Stalingrad, nearly 2 million soldiers died. A most amazing statue commemorates the place.

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[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

. . . out of about 4 million people fighting for the city, German and Russian, 1.8 million of them died. Stalin forbade evacuation even of children, and the city was destroyed, so . . .

More Russians died defending for that one city, than Americans died in the whole of World War Two. More than three times as many as died in the USA civil war in the 1860s. The mind boggles at such numbers.

[–]DNase 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

WW2 was a depopulation event, I'm not shocked to read the numbers in the article. Putin's desire to rename the city back to Stalingrad seems to foreshadow the activity there now, more depopulation. this is mind blowing, the numbers from Stalingrad