Remembering D-Day and the Cost to Russia

D-Day in 1944 cost 4500 allied soldier’s lives. Russia, or the Soviet Union had spent 775,000 of its soldier’s lives repelling the German Nazi invasion in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. Russians- Soviets, continued to advance west to roll up the Nazi Army thereafter. In August 1943 Russia had sent 2.6 million soldiers to the fray and had retaken the Ukraine from the Nazi horde. Without the diversion of German Nazi soldiers to fight Russia- just in operation Barbarossa Germany had a million casualties, life would have been more difficult for the allies attacking from the west and south. 

In September 1943 the allies invaded Italy. Russia's 900 mile front against the Nazis continued pushing through Ukraine and into other Nazi occupied nations of Eastern Europe. Eventually- in June 1944. The allies landed at Normandy on D-Day.