Your defense here is so pathetic and commieshilled. Communists are uniquely bad. You cannot counter with "no, everyone is equally bad". Oh? If everyone is equally bad then why the fuck is social welfare so fucking high in western democracies while having been utter dogshit in every communist country? The results, the reality, do not match your beliefs at all.

Cause, and I know this will shock you, because the economic system in communist countries is bad and inefficient. Also the system allows the state to extract even more of the production than it does in Western countries. 0% of this is the result of communist leaders being 'bad' and your Joe Biden being good, decent and noble.

There is a huge difference in attitudes towards the value of human life, and you can see it reflected in doctrine. No other countries had "blocking detachments" or anything like Stalin's broad use of "penal battalions". Stuff like forcing men at gunpoint into minefields to clear them only really happened in the Soviet military.

Yes, there are differences, and these differences were the result of the communist system. Also because the measures were necessary. Later on, they were no longer necessary, so even communists did not use it - but they would have if they thought these were necessary.

If the Nazis had tried this, the officer corps and generals would probably have revolted. The army in the USSR was more quiescent.

When you have the thought in your head "Biden doesn't care about human life at all, he only PRETENDS to because he has to pretend for the sake of the voters" it says a LOT more about you and your internal thought processes than it says about Biden.

Not just Biden. The whole lot of them. Though I may make an exception for Trump, but only because he was not a professional politician.

Obviously, Biden doesn't care if 1 million, 10 million or 100 million die. If they're his own subjects, he might care because of the disruption in tax revenue it might cause, and because manpower is a resource. Nothing else. Same for the rest of them. Putin, Scholtz, Von der Leyen, Kim Jung Un. They are one.

First, it looks like projection, since "assuming everyone is bad" is almost always caused by the speaker himself being bad and coping by lowering the rest of humanity to his level.

I'm so sorry for lowering the noble Biden down to my level.

Cultural and social norms exist, and are real, and play a role in the development of the personality of people, including people like Joe Biden or Euros or whoever.

You are right here, but not for the reason you think. Cultural and social norms exist, and they matter, not because they 'shape' Joe Biden, but because they constrain Joe Biden. And that's good! Imagine a world where you are at the mercy of Joe Biden's morals and scruples for bad things (I should say worse) not happening.

Under communism, human life is denigrated and people grow up with attitudes similar to Putin which show callous disregard for human life. You seem to share these values, and even though you'd protest that you do not, I get to see inside your mind when you take positions like this.

I guess describing rulers' indifference to human life means that I am. You caught me.

In any Western country, the value of human life is so much higher than the 50k+ dead that Russia

Dude, 50k dead means about 200k casualties - more than Putin's whole army. Is this your pro-puppet copium or what?

These things are unthinkable to an American or western Euro or Commonwealth person. They are outside the social norms of acceptability or decency. You talk of a "system". Oh? And what exactly is that system made of? It's made of these norms, which are comprised of the beliefs and feelings of the people.

The system means that we can cause trouble for the rulers if they are indifferent to people's lives. Though I wonder seeing how indifferent your fake puppet non-country is to the lives of its people.

Even the Chinese communists backed down after taking far smaller losses on Kinmen and abandoned their hopes of invading Taiwan.

And that, like any decision Biden or others make, has 0% to do with any humanitarian consideration for 'human life'. Which is a laughable absurdity.

Politicians are evil. Face it.

No, because the Soviets had a large enough numbers advantage by then that anyone could see the high KD ratios the Germans were getting were still not high enough to turn the tide.

That's a myth. Just compare the population numbers of German-controlled areas and the areas still under the control of the USSR by then - it had lost most populated areas and the industrialiazed regions that Kaganovich was not able to move. The USSR barely had an advantage, and that's disregarding the millions taken prisoner and killed by that point.

The Germans in fact underperformed at Kursk to the point where belief in the competence and fighting abilities of the Soviets significantly increased. Until Kursk, the Soviets had never been able to actually stop a German offensive even when they knew it was coming.

But they sucked despite their preparation.

Russians are just bad at war. They're brave, but their leadership and training is often abysmal. (Fortunately, Ukrainians are also Russians.)