I think the Poles and the Russians would strongly disagree with you.
The siege at St. Petersburg is one of the most horrific losses of civilian life in the war.
I’ve stood in the ruins in Warsaw, though there’s not much left to see in the city from the bombing—Hitler told the Luftwaffe he didn’t want one brick to stand on another and the bombers executed Hitler’s wishes with deadly efficiency. That was before we even entered the war.
There are still concentration camp fences and pock-marked concrete walls standing across Poland. Polish civilians paid a deadly price for resisting the Blitzkrieg.