Speaking of World War II, it was a world war that brought havoc to all mankind, and all the countries involved in the war paid a very painful price, especially the Soviet Union and China. According to statistics, the total number of Casualties among Chinese soldiers and civilians reached 35 million at that time, while the Price paid by the Soviet Union was even higher, and the total number of casualties reached 60 million.
At that time, we were a backward agrarian country, and we had to face the well-equipped Japanese invaders, and we could only rely on flesh and blood to resist, so we paid a heavy price and finally won the victory. But why did the Soviet Union, a European power second only to Germany before the outbreak of World War II, suffer so many casualties?
Before the outbreak of World War II, the overall strength of the Soviet Union ranked third in the world, the second in Europe, and it was one of the most powerful countries in Europe at that time, and it was reasonable to say that it should not have paid such a heavy price. But if we analyze the situation facing the SOVIET Union at that time, we can find the reasons for this result.
First of all, the Soviet Tradition of Fighting Wars was to fight for people.
Russia, the predecessor of the Soviet Union, had the highest death toll in World War I, with 1.7 million soldiers killed alone. Because during the First World War, Russia's industrial capacity was the worst, so the Russians fought the war at that time to fight people, to win by quantity, and this kind of operational thinking also continued into the Period of World War II. The Soviet Union had a strong ability to mobilize and was able to recruit a steady stream of troops from all over the country to enter the battlefield, which was the advantage of the Soviet Union and the choice that the Soviet Union had to make in order to win.
Second, the soviet union's mistakes in the early days of the Soviet-German war.
Although the Soviet Union was very strong, the Soviet Union faced a Germany that was stronger than it and already occupied most of Western Europe, when Germany launched the Barbarossa Plan, which was a complete surprise attack, and the Soviet side was not prepared in advance, losing 3,000 cannons, 2,000 aircraft, 1,500 tanks, and 300,000 Soviet troops at the beginning of the battle. The Soviet Union's most elite forces lost most of it at the outset, and in 1941 alone, the Soviet Union lost 70 percent of its industrial production capacity, as well as grain silos such as Ukraine.
Therefore, the soviet union, which was suddenly attacked by Germany, has been greatly weakened. In order to win the battlefield, the Soviet Union had to invest more manpower and use limited industrial production capacity to produce more weapons and equipment to block the German attack, which led to high casualties among Soviet soldiers. At that time, Germany concentrated almost 80% of its forces on attacking the Soviet Union, and after invading the Soviet Union, brutally killed civilians. The Soviet army lost more than 10.6 million people in the entire Soviet-German war, while civilians died more than 17.4 million.
This is the cruelty of war. But at the same time, we should also thank the Soviet Union for its contribution, if it were not for the Soviet Union resisting Germany, the outcome of World War II is still unknown.