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Before you start to laugh their face, look this.
Country Military Civilian Deaths
USSR 13,600,000 7,700,000 21,300,000
China 1,324,000 10,000,000 11,324,000
Germany 3,250,000 3,810,000 7,060,000
Poland 850,000 6,000,000 6,850,000
United States 500,000 - 500,000
Italy 330,000 80,000 410,000
First of all, Russia was attacked so you can't honestly count the 7,7 million civilian casualties as "investment" in the war.
Russia at that time did not care about its military at all. It's not a secret that they've shot their own people because they were pulling back. I'm not talking about a few cases, they literally killed their own people by the hundreds of thousands, because Stalin ordered to do so. They treated fleeing as an act of desertion, which is the most ridiculous thing to do.
Their supplies were ridiculous too. It's not a joke when I say each russian soldier in the battle of stalingrad had 5 bullets and had to wait for their companions to die in order to get a rifle and shoot.
Since you like the numbers so much, we have around 4 million german soldiers KIA, versus 10 million russians on the eastern front. Really, you can't call this an "investment" in war, this is just stupidity on Stalin's side. That they've suffered so many losses, I'm sorry, but I really can't call it a larger investment than on the American side. If they used their brains they could at the very least have halved their losses.
Then I haven't even mentioned the ridiculous amount of casualties made at Berlin when the war was already over, just to get to Berlin before the Americans did.