I have always been impressed and humbled by the Russian spirit, these are people who went through the greatest hardships and took it on the chin and then gave back as good as they got, if not better.
The sheer numbers of the Great Patriotic War is mindboggling. The deadliest theatre of the whole war, something like a third to a quarter (if not more) of all the casualties in the Second World War.
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