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by lolinder 1756 days ago
> Further, number of casualties is a perfectly fine argument for "who sacrificed the most," but not necessarily for who "won" the war.

Exactly. It's possible to have that many casualties and then lose the war. All those casualty numbers tell us is that the war on the Eastern front was far more brutal than the war on the Western front, not how strategically important the victory on either front ended up being.

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Normandy in 44? The war was lost since many years then.

The Soviet Union may have won against Japan too :-) https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...