2009-08-10, 02:35 PM
MasPan Wrote:[color="#cc8899"]Having 1 gun per every 6 soldiers kindof doesn't help...
Basic Soviet tactics often resorted to a full on zergling rush, with soldiers fortunate enough to have a comrade wielding a gun die near them simply picking it up and moving on. Tanks were stopped, not by rockets or sticky bombs, but by the masses of dead bodies in front of them at times.[/COLOR]
It's not a zerg rush, the soviets basically cared 0 about the lives of their own citizens. Sending unarmed soldiers against armed opponents is not even tactically advantageous. Even once the tide of WWII was turned, the standard tactic of Soviet commanders was to make decisions that got a lot of the troops killed. The NKVD, (predecessor organization to the KGB,) was parked at the end of each battlefield, so if a Russian soldier ran for any reason, they'd shoot him.
The Russians are a good people, it's their leaders that need to be dragged to the streetcorner and shot in the head in front of everyone. And I mean that as much for Putin as for Stalin or Kruschev.