And what was the alternative? The German’s objective was to literally clear the land out for German settlers. By killing everyone inhabiting those lands. For soviets it was a matter of giving at least some chance of survival to women and children they were trying to protect. Imagine all those soldiers who knew they had to sacrifice their lives. And you try to reduce their bravery to being “Stalin’s targets”.

We're not talking about what should have been done, but at how efficient the USSR was.

It. was. not at all.

I mean, how do you quantify that? I’d love to see the study measuring USSR efficiency.

They were incredibly efficient at big industry

But never could make consumer goods. When the economy had to pivot to a consumer lead one, they found that all the economists with different ideas had been shot....