Unfortunately from what I understand it happened a few times when Stalin first ordered 'no steps back!' but stopped soon after when they noticed it was just making morale worse and killing their own men on the retreat was an ass-backwards idea. Early war Soviet Union was not super good, critical support and all that, but they definitely mistimed their purging of the brass
Unfortunately from what I understand it happened a few times when Stalin first ordered 'no steps back!' but stopped soon after when they noticed it was just making morale worse and killing their own men on the retreat was an ass-backwards idea. Early war Soviet Union was not super good, critical support and all that, but they definitely mistimed their purging of the brass