my mistake guys over 2000 planes were destroyed in the battle ( did more research ) if fact over 200 planes were lost in the first day of battle.
This is not to say that the soviets didnt take huge casualties. They lost a huge number aswell.


And Erich i wouldnt exatcly call soviet armore weak. A t-34 medium tank could penetrate a tiger head on with new 85mm barrel and im not even going to mention the IS series which could pentrate a tiger over 1000 yards away! Yes i know they were built in 44' Cant reall say that about any other allied tanks in the war. Especially when talking about the sherman!

By the way guys my sources are in 2 languages,

Alexander Wrath was an american author who lived in Russia during the outbreak of the war and wrote a book on the conflict titled Russia at war. Great book very accurate for the most part but yes its questionable points as due most novels on the conflict.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler