• dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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    11 months ago

    The RKKA achieving worse kill ratios than the WAllies is pretty true though. This is not really well understood, but for almost all points of the war the RKKA operated under deficencies of artillery, whether it be from ammunition shortages1, quantity of tubes or simply a lack of radios for fire control. The real conclusion you should draw is that it says a lot about how well commanded and solid Soviet doctrine was that they were able to accomplish so much so quickly with such limitations. If the RKKA could equip their formations as lavishly as the WAllies did with armoured transports, radios and as much CAS and artillery as the WAllies had they would have been in Berlin by mid '44.

    1 Explosives for shells etc. were produced in Ukraine, which was obviously occupied.