It's about 18 minutes long, and has a lot of cool modern graphics to make their point and not very many grapic scenes. WW Deaths Soviet Union numbers are just staggering. <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/128373915?badge=0" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0"></iframe> <p><a>The Fallen of World War II</a> from <a>Neil Halloran</a> on <a>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Soviet soldiers were not allowed to surrender. Those that were taken prisoner were sent to gulags on their return branded as traitors.
:idea: When Stalin's son was captured by the Germans, an American reporter asked him about it in an interview. He replied, "I have no son." This remark made headlines in Nazi Germany where the smirking guards brought the newspaper to their prisoner. The headline said simply, "I Have No Son- Stalin." The boy ran outside and threw himself on the electrified barbed wire fence... Here is a more complete version of this minor historical controversy... http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalins-eldest-son-yakov-dzhugashvili-captured-germans-1941/
To say the numbers are staggering does not begin to describe the toll. I've never thought of the overall total of WW II deaths until I saw this video. Thanks, Terry, for the education. Thanks, JO'Co, for the history lesson re: Stalin and his son.