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Originally Posted by Torplexed
The number that always struck me was the 800,000 dead at the siege of Leningrad. More than the US lost in the whole war. You wonder how a nation goes through misery like that without melting down. Maybe a history of similar miseries helps?
On a lighter note I found this Theodor Geissel (Dr. Seuss) editorial cartoon from June 1941 New York newspaper very appropriate. 
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I agree something about the Russian people they have a rather harsh history yet they seem to always persevere they truly have stiff upper lips.I know my wife who was born in then USSR Latvia to Ukrainian parents they have a toughness about them that most people in the many different nations I have been to lack.I know Ukrainians have their own culture but it is closely tied to Russian culture/history.
Of course I knew a few pure Russians in the USAF that where born in the USSR like CCIP was they never ever complained even on the ****tiest longest hardest days and I admired that because I was the same way:just push on through and shut your mouth.I saw on some TV show they where in Russia Moscow at that eternal flame for the war and there where dozens of just married couples waiting to pay their respects to the
common solider on their wedding day that really impressed me and it shows just how strongly they still feel about the war.I am sure very few people in western nations like the US or England do something similar on such a personal day.You ask 20 American kids about WWII and you might find 5 at best who will know anything about it one will say something about Call of Duty I knew lots of folks while I was in the military that knew little to nothing about WWII or Korea.