• foggy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They had more soldiers than guns.

    Folks went into the front lines knowing the plan was to pick up guns from their dead commrades.

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s important enough to note, there’s no evidence showing this was the plan in any Soviet campaign in WW2. (But this is based off memory so there could be a single digit number of times)

      In WW1? That would be accurate. Say what you will about Soviets but weapons were something they could produce and properly supply unlike the tsar.

      In the Ukraine war though you are probably correct.