Plus, the image we're given is of highly trained, hardened warriors in their late 20s - early 30s volunteering to fight against the forces of evil.

When in reality they were all young, barely trained conscripts being launched into the enemy on a conveyor belt of death and replaced the moment they fell.

We always see stories about how callous the soviets were with their goy troops, but the reality is that western jews were no different. Pretty much only the Germans seem to have had any respect for the lives of their men. They rotated units out of the front line and allowed them to recover rather than just grinding them to death and Hitler cancelled plans for airborn infantry operations after Crete because casualties were too high.