Soviet antitank squad trains prior to the German Operation Zitadelle, 1943. The deep defence, incorporating dug-in antitank squads, frustrated German armoured attacks, and went a long way to securing German defeat at Kursk. Best regards, JR.
Are you thinking of another Battle of Kursk, the Soviet offensives started before Kursk was even finished, the losses they had were replaced in no time. The aim of Kursk was to cut off the bulge and the North pincer got no where and the South pincer little further.
Well a long time after Kursk the German army remained functional and for a long time was able to inflict far greater losses to the enemy than they themselves had to endure, both in men and materiel. Perhaps the operation itself was a failure, but as a whole for the war itself, the Germans fared very well.
The Germans could never match Soviet output, not even after a victorious Kursk. What they could do, however, was to inflict losses on the enemy, and that they did, despite suffering great (but not Pyrrhic!) losses. The real problem was that these losses COULD be replaced, but their second front - the extermination - pulled also from these resources, namely the transport fleet available. But therein lies also a part of what you should remember when discussing the Eastern Front, that for the Nazis it was as important to exterminate people, as it was to fight the "actual battles". Militarily it was horrendous to let a division die and lose all its vehicles, but if it gave a few weeks more to gas people, they were happy.
After Kursk the Soviets turned to massed offensives that gained a lot of ground, but at the cost of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives, not to mention the desolation of their future "Eastern-block". You can call the Soviet offensives whatever you want, but for the thousands upon thousands of men rotting in its wake, I doubt it felt very "glorious".