Stalin had an order to shoot any troops that tried to retreat, so Soviet casualties were particularly high. But when you're a communist and your enemy is fascis

Stalin had an order to shoot any troops that tried to retreat, so Soviet casualties were particularly high. But when you're a communist and your enemy is fascism, no human toll would seem to be too high. Also all the genocide and mass rape and bioweapons and those numbers very easily add up. When you have one society that views the destruction of humanity as the greatest sublime pleasure, and others doing whatever they can to stop them, a lot of people are going to die.