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In Russia, losses up to 4% are fine.
by Bost 4y ago
In Russia, losses up to 4% are fine.
- lotusmars 4y agoThere is a quote attributed to Zhukov, Stalin’s army general: “No sparing soldiers, women will give birth to more of them!”
- KuiN 4y agoThis is a falsely attributed quote. There's zero record of Zhukov (or anyone, particularly none of the various people this quote has been attributed to) saying this. It's a lazy stereotype of the CCCP's strategy during WWII and absolutely incorrect.
- lotusmars 4y agoYet it is still valid for their strategy during the invasion of Ukraine. They don’t need sophisticated weaponry or artillery. Just a slow push until the opponent is exhausted. Losses are irrelevant: they can always be hidden or denied because you control media.
- cpursley 4y agoBigotry is against hn policies.
- DonHopkins 4y ago
- cpursley 4y agoAre you suggesting that since Russia has a position on gays that you don't agree with, bigotry and hatred of Russia is justified?
- thorncorona 4y agoYep, you can have a distaste for a country because of its backwards laws.
- Intermernet 4y agoBigotry, no. Hatred, perhaps (it depends on how much it effects you personally). Criticism, certainly.
- cpursley 4y agoRegarding your Edit: Really? Guilt by association, purity test questions and projection/assumptions towards me? Speaking of fascist attitudes...
- spacemanmatt 4y ago
- DonHopkins 4y ago
- cpursley 4y agoI haven't answered you because I'm afraid, but because you're way off topic & behaving like a bully. The last time I was there, even the Russian airport security interrogators were more polite than you...
- spacemanmatt 4y ago
- mdp2021 4y agoAny reference?
- Etheryte 4y agoThis is a common saying or trope with the number varying to a degree. The original version I know of is that in the Soviet military it was an acceptable loss to lose two people out of a hundred during a regular training operation.
- mdp2021 4y agoSome may have put a number somewhere, but the general idea is not unique. And of course, there is that """detail""": «during a regular /training/ operation». This is the humour of Crock (Bill Rechin, Brant Parker and Don Wilder): «Losing fourteen men on patrol bothering you Poulet? You are thinking of bettering it, but we do not have twenty-eight to spare». More to the glacial reality, it is said that the notorious dictator who made the move in '39, once presented with a report of particularly heavy losses, after a pause said "After all, this is what the young are for". Some people can have so debatable ideas.