Yes they did and were ready to walk into hell left foot forward my father said. For all of their later and latest infamy, the Russian soldiers saved the bacon of all the Allied forces and lost more soldiers and many more of their civilians than any other country. It is amazing what one arrogant madman like, lenin, stalin mao, ETC. or hitler or his prize protege, george soros, can do.
ADD the genocide of their own people as is planned for some of us by their governments and you can easily see why all of the men in all of those graves are so important.