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"millions upon millions of soldiers" That shouldn't have been a shock to Hitler, not even an unknown information. In the Russian Civil War¹ that preceded WW2,
by userulluipeste 7y ago
"millions upon millions of soldiers"
That shouldn't have been a shock to Hitler, not even an unknown information. In the Russian Civil War¹ that preceded WW2, the Red Army amassed well over five million soldiers, and the soviet's control over the country and subsequently over the army enlistments could only improve since then.
¹https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War