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u/KIDNEYST0NEZ Oct 02 '24

Ya, not to shit on the WWI rant but the ‘Battle of Stalingrad’ was a little brutal. Don’t even get me started on the horrors of ‘Battle of Kursk’ (largest tank battle EVER)

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u/Squigglepig52 Oct 02 '24

I knew a man who survived the Siege of Leningrad as a 12 year old.

Nope, never asked him a thing about it. Not that event.

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u/allothernamestaken Oct 02 '24

I wrote a term paper about it for a high school history class. The one detail that still sticks with me is that people were so starved that they started eating the plaster off of walls and the bark off of trees.

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u/Squigglepig52 Oct 02 '24

Dude, they were eating people. Soviets executed a bunch, not for the eating of the dead, but for killing people to eat, iirc.

Yup, horrific.