Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "German Army: Why No Collapse" video.

Sometimes that "knowing" was exaggerated. One of my relatives served in Soviet Army after he got captured in late 1944 as Latvian SS Legion "volunteer". Soviets were not completely irrational, they reasoned like "cannon fodder is just cannon fodder", if you got enlisted as "volunteer" for one side, why couldn't you serve for the other too? Even if that was not official policy, people on spot could decide such stuff, especially, if one helped his Russian guards to "cure" their severe hangover by knowing where to get some local moonshine. And such experience of fighting on both sides is far from unique.
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Hmmm, how about a crazy idea? What if high losses was one of the factors, that promoted stability? More and more fresh cannon-fodder got thrown into the grinder, while inexperienced, they got no years battle fatigue, no experience of those bloody battles on the East, West and South, no experience of retreat for over a year.
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@cappucino-strong in a single party state with totalitarian ideology (both Soviet andNazi) losses hardly would make into news. Even in democracies, as they were back then, such data could be made secret in a wartime, in order to avoid impact on morale. Soviets were so secretive about losses, we still are not sure about exact number and total losses of Sovie population are estimated on demographic data.
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