What is it? Wishful thinking, some perverted reasoning? The USSR lost about 30 million people due to Hitler and his accomplices (and most of which were civilians). What else could Stalin do? 
Normally, if sane people are commanding the armies, then common sense says that the attackers will lose more people than the defenders. Here it was just the opposite. 4 million Germans killed when compared to 30 million Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians. Technology-wise, both the armies were almost equal. 26 million additional deaths caused by the stupidity of Stalin and his ministers.
