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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop - By the middle of June, when his military advisers were declaiming that Russia would be beaten in no time and when someone spoke of Russia as a "big bubble," Hitler suddenly became thoughtful and said that Russia was rather like the ship in Wagner's Flying Dutchman. "The beginning of every war is like opening a door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness."
John Lukacs, The Last European War: September 1939 - December 1941 137 (Yale University Press 1976).
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But Russia (or, well, at that point, the Soviet Union, but who's being picky?) had 10 or 20 million bodies to use as cannon fodder. Dunno. Usually on your side, but it seems totally different.
