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Stalin had a saying that "quantity has a quality all it's own." There were probably only two nations on the earth at this time that could have stood up to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and those were the Soviet Union or China.

The reason for this is that to defeat the Germans, one had to have massive amounts of bodies to wear them down. The Soviets lost between 20 to 40 million people fighting the Germans.

I do not know if there will ever be a truly accurate count of how many people died to stop the German attack. As I have said before no other country on the Allies side could have absorbed the losses that Stalin did and not surrender. To loose a quarter of a million soldiers, then half a million, and the loses continued to climb.

So quantity did overcome quality, but only because Hitler squandered the opportunities that his armed forces gave him. There were several times that the Germans could have seized the throat of the Soviet Union and did not

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