What on earth happened

>D-day - a battle where germans were shooting fish in a barrel: 10k losses
>A random battle in barbarossa: 700k losses

What on earth were the russians doing? How did they lose so much? Any documentaries or footage of this?

>"fish in a barrel"
Except for the near zero air superiority and the massive airborne landings behind the lines and the heavy use of inferior Ost-legions and conscripted fanatics

No one was encircled on the Day landings, and the Allies had overwhelming fire superiority then on top of outnumber in the Germans 3:1.

>He who defends everything defends nothing.

D-Day
>on the defensive
>casualties don't filter KIA
>a lot of Germans surrendered when their defensive positions fell

Kiev 1st
>Budyonny incompetent asf
>German army groups were encircling soviet battalions
>Large manned force but lack of arms (Soviets)
>KIA,MIA,captured not filtered; guaranteed at least half surrendered

It's easy

The Soviet casualties at Kiev are the direct result of Stalin refusing to accept the inevitable loss of a city and not allowing its huge defending force to retreat in face of being surrounded. The vast majority of that 700k were captured.

Meanwhile in Normandy, as soon as the Allies took the beachhead the Germans lost their advantage. It's tough to defend against a larger invading force when your first line of defense is just a handful of dudes in bunkers and pillboxes.

>barbarossa

Russian invaded while Russian units are mid-reorganization.

Those not missing majority of their personnel are missing majority of their equipment.

Maybe one division in 10 will have had any prior experience working together.

Only units not largely affected by the purges of leadership are horse cavalry.

Leningrad factory workers are formed into militia units and sent to the front without enough rifles, some get only grenades.

Tens of thousands of light tanks but hardly any maintenance units. Those not destroyed are abandoned.

Hauling tractors for artillery/tank retrieval are kept on communal farms, most don't show up, those that do don't work.

Etc, etc, etc...

There was no barrier troops behind the krauts.

Omaha was only as bad as it was because the beach landings were planned in Feb/March 1944, prior to Rommel's build-up, including most of the beach defenses and the reassignment of the German 352nd division, an Eastern Front division having its infantry regiments rebuilt and trained in France, but also including a veteran artillery regiment that was sitting right behind Omaha.

>kiev
>a random battle

This is a joke?