Visited the D-Day Memorial Graveyard while in France. It was truly a chilling experience to see where it all happened. It is also a moment of very silent reverence. I sang there since I'm in choir and brought a good crowd to tears. Yeah.
D-Day has been overphrased on its real impact of world war two, most of the real war was fought on the eastern front, and almost 70% of the german army was committed to fighting the russians. The socialist armies are the true heroes that crushed the fascist armies under their boots.
Not really. The invasion of Normandy beach led directly to the liberation of France, which almost halved the territory that the Nazi troops held. Granted, the fact that Hitler basically wasted his army by sending it to Russia was also a huge blow, it's nearly impossible to locate a key strategic turning point such as D-Day in on the Russian front. Total USSR casualties at the end of the war was 10,700,000. Total WWII casualties is 25,282,100. Basically, the Russian military accounts for nearly half the total casualties. There was a lot of people being crushed under a boot, but I'm not sure the Soviets were doing much crushing.
That got thrown out the window for this. Scares me thinking about soldiers dying, someone I care deeply for is one. Fallen soldiers do need to be commemorated though.
The Soviet Army might had lost nearly 10 million men, but they slaughtered over 6 million axis soldier on the eastern front, and from those 10 million troops over 3 million starved to dead in german prison camps. The Eastern front was by far the biggest and most important fronts of ww2, probably most descisive than all other fronts all together. In the western front the units that fought the allies were usually units being rebuild from mauling on the eastern front, with the exception of units like the 12th SS Panzer Division or the PanzerLehr. Even battalions of captured cossacks guarded the french coast. The total figures for casualties of ww2 is estimated at 60 million, both civilian and military. The eastern front alone took half of them if you count civilian deads too.
Hey yea, lets say when someone dies in combat, slaughter, cause we're all animals. They're people too, they may have had different views, but they were still human.
My mother language is not english, so for me slaughter is the same as killing, althoug butchering sounds more like killing an animal or commiting a genocide/massacre
