tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3335175720102608134.post2664752421753381877..comments2024-01-18T00:59:52.237-08:00Comments on Christos military and intelligence corner: Strength and loss data for German ,Soviet and UK militaries 1939-45Christos T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04246906263926130737noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3335175720102608134.post-76467028366501766772017-07-20T08:35:59.998-07:002017-07-20T08:35:59.998-07:00Krivosheevs estimate can't be accurate because...Krivosheevs estimate can't be accurate because the Russian Military Archives database lists the number of military dead at more than 14 million. Not all soldiers killed in war are included in this. Even today grave registration teams are working on identifying more military dead.<br />On February 14, 2017 a non government organization from Russia called ''immortal regiment'' published copies of Soviet Gosplan documents, that indicated that the number of Soviet military dead was 19 million, on the website Soldat.ru.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12444398696710497819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3335175720102608134.post-2812900702656268622016-08-01T11:05:00.859-07:002016-08-01T11:05:00.859-07:00one should be very careful about troop strengths a...one should be very careful about troop strengths and losses, there are inaccuracies in histography. The thing is, only god knows how many people died. You can give a lower and upper limit or check the meticulously administered OKH reports up until mid 44. German casualty reports after 44 are just estimates, Krivosheevs numbers are highly questionable. Fact is, we know the soviet union lost 22-26 million people (if substracting death by different causes or migration). They want us to believe that more civilians died which is unlikely. 10 day reports, Freiburg: Zetterlings recalculations, TSAMO, Ilenkov - Suvorov military Academy, Sokolov, Tapio Tiihonen... etc. get closer to the core issue. The political climate (and their soviet revisionism) in Russia does not allow correct research anyway. There was always a "break even point" for the RKKA to achieve success (about 1.98 at kursk)and some academics go a bit too far, especially Dr. Pennington. http://warontherocks.com/2016/07/was-the-russian-military-a-steamroller-from-world-war-ii-to-today/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3335175720102608134.post-64970342771774402712015-10-24T09:32:57.093-07:002015-10-24T09:32:57.093-07:00I have never undestand the claim of "Soviet i...I have never undestand the claim of "Soviet inexhaustible supply of manpower" because after all the population rate between Greater Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union was just about 1:2. Even when suggesting that Soviet age groups of males (born 1910-1928) were indeed bigger (perhaps more than 1:2.5) Germans were still much better in battelground at least until spring 1944. <br /><br />To solve this puzzle we have to understand that Stalin was more willing to sacrifice younger and older soldiers and females than Hitler. After all his cannon fodder e.g in 1944 was males born 1891-1927 + about million females. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com