1.5 million troops (not even counting civilians) died at the siege of Leningrad. One million at the battle of Stalingrad. To most people, "Kursk" is the name o

1.5 million troops (not even counting civilians) died at the siege of Leningrad. One million at the battle of Stalingrad. To most people, "Kursk" is the name of a submarine but it is also the biggest tanks battle of the history of mankind, and the point where USSR made the tide turn in favor of the allies. This battle alone saw more death than the campaign of Normandy. It is funny how these things work. We tend to put an heroic filter on the Allies' operation on the D-Day and trivialize the French defense in 1940 as a buffoonery despite both having a similar death toll. And we ignore the big battles that bled to death the USSR and that actually won the war. One can't understand stalinism and the Russian brand of nationalism without knowing that history.