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  1. The practice at the time was to bury them in place, enmass. Sometimes literally in the fighting positions where they fell. There was no time and often not enough man power. We are talking 10s of thousands of dead per square kilometer for some of the worst battles.
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  2. Why?
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  3. Its West of Volgagrad (Stalingrad).
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  4. It depends on the soil composition. IIRC the soils in Kursk are loamy chernozem and alkaline. This leads to the rapid degradation of organic fabrics that uniforms were made of. But boots were processed with preservatives. Also the Eurasian plains see a lot of temperature and moisture variation. Also not great for preservation. A tomb is a different environment all together.
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  5. Of course.
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  6. It was a war of national survival, literally. There really wasn't much of a choice.
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