• LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They lost so many because they just ran STRAIGHT into the machine gun nests

      • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        high rkka combat deaths is an extremely complex subject that in no way boils down to them running straight into machine gun nests. the ussr would have lost if they did that, the reality is that they were the most experienced armoured mobile warfare force in the allies with doctrinal emphasis on deep breakthroughs, but was limited heavily by a lack of artillery (because the chemical plants were all in the ukraine) that led to high deaths on the offensive. its not theory in any sense, but people should read shit like glantz b4 just saying shit like this which is informed entirely by like enemy at the gates and franz halder's lies.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah but some of those Russian deaths were because of eeeeeeeebil Stalin (an argument a lib actually used on me)

        • BeamBrain [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I would, but I cut off contact with them after a three-hour long argument where they defended vaccine apartheid because "poor countries contribute less to vaccine research"