I wasn't talking about importance as much as competence. Russia took massive losses to beat down the Germans on the eastern front. They won, but they ended up l

I wasn't talking about importance as much as competence. Russia took massive losses to beat down the Germans on the eastern front. They won, but they ended up losing some 25 million people. Given that they were fighting on their home turf vs a smaller population invader, that doesn't make it sound like they were terribly effective other than drowning the Germans in bodies.