Quantact Wrote: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.
[color="#cc8899"]A zergling rush also consists of masses of units that the commander generally cares little about and are only useful for their sheer numbers. I never said they were bad people.
Being shot for running from battle is, in one form or another, prevelant in almost any military. It may not be immediate, but even being court-martialed or branded a traitor for running from battle is a form of this. It prevents chaos as half of your forces flee (not only cutting your numbers, but reducing effectiveness of the remaining as they struggle to make headway through the fleeing forces. It also causes confusion, blocks line of sight, and demoralizes. So there was a very good reason to prevent flee at any cost, regardless of the personal nature of each leader or the evils that the force preventing the fleeing.
Note that I am NOT talking about an organized retreat. I sloppily used that word, causing a misunderstanding below.[/COLOR]