[The once and future king]

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For every one German killed on the Eastern Front there were five Russians killed and two taken prisoner.

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For the entire war yes. This will tend to happen when you launch a giant sneak attack against a totaly unprepared enemy. You are going to kill alot of them and take many prisoners. Espeicaly when that enemy has just purged all his officers.

If you look at the casualty ratios after 43 then things change.

The Western Allies faces 20% of the German combat power and enjoyed massive advatages in men and equipment yet they found it hard going against the Wermacht. After Kursk the Russians basicaly cut through the Germans other 80% like a knife through butter. You should read up on Operation Bagration which deystroyed massive formations (army group centre)of the Wermacht in the blink of an eye(relative to operational warfare). Bliztzkrieg looked like a childens party compared to what the Russians visited on the Germans in 43,44 and 45. To assume that the Russian in 40/41 are the same as the Russians in 44/45 is a massive error.

Also Russian superiority in armour is an objective and undeniable fact. The T-34 85mm medium battle tank was a far superior tank to the 75mm Sherman and could have scored kills against the Pershing, whereas the Sherman would have been impotent against the IS2,IS3 and the IS4 Heavy tanks that was coming on line in 45.

In 45 the Russian war machine was the most lethal and massive concentration of men and equipment in the western theatre.