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~100,000 German casualties (including wounded) for a whole battle not possible. Germans lost over 100,000 killed in July-August 1943 https://www.feldgrau.com/WW2-Germany-Statistics-and-Numbers It looks like a confusion or an anti-Russian falsification. Publish another estimates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.252.52.68 ( talk) 18:26, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Preserving here by providing this link; my rationale was: "undue claims from Mainstein's self-serving memoirs". -- K.e.coffman ( talk) 23:30, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
The lede is a bloated 550-word, 4-paragraph mess that doesn't meet WP:GA standards. J. Harrington Inchworm III ( talk) 19:58, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
The paragraph regarding Red Army armour strength alleges that the Soviets fielded an IS-3 prototype, but the source cited does not support this. The IS-3 was not developed until the following year. It's possible that an IS-2 prototype participated (and an IS-2 is displayed at the diorama of the battle in Belgorod), but the source does not appear to specify this. 24.16.132.126 ( talk) 16:20, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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~100,000 German casualties (including wounded) for a whole battle not possible. Germans lost over 100,000 killed in July-August 1943 https://www.feldgrau.com/WW2-Germany-Statistics-and-Numbers It looks like a confusion or an anti-Russian falsification. Publish another estimates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.252.52.68 ( talk) 18:26, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Preserving here by providing this link; my rationale was: "undue claims from Mainstein's self-serving memoirs". -- K.e.coffman ( talk) 23:30, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
The lede is a bloated 550-word, 4-paragraph mess that doesn't meet WP:GA standards. J. Harrington Inchworm III ( talk) 19:58, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
The paragraph regarding Red Army armour strength alleges that the Soviets fielded an IS-3 prototype, but the source cited does not support this. The IS-3 was not developed until the following year. It's possible that an IS-2 prototype participated (and an IS-2 is displayed at the diorama of the battle in Belgorod), but the source does not appear to specify this. 24.16.132.126 ( talk) 16:20, 12 April 2024 (UTC)