Article:

To this day, most Russians think World War II was something that happened primarily in their country and the battles everywhere else in the world were a sideshow.

Reality:

more than 3/4 of German casualties were on the Eastern Front

Article:

In August 1943, for instance, in the hilly countryside around the city of Kursk (about 200 miles south of Moscow), the German and Soviet armies collided in an uncontrolled slaughter: more than four million men and thousands of tanks desperately maneuvered through miles of densely packed minefields and horizon-filling networks of artillery fire. It may have been the single largest battle fought in human history, and it ended -- like all the battles on the eastern front -- in a draw.

Reality:

Result: Decisive Soviet victory / Germany's offensive power on the Eastern Front is crippled

Territorial changes: Soviets liberate territory along a 2,000 km (1,200 mi) wide front