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Just like in WW2 - throwing millions of men into the meat grinder to try and defeat the Nazis.
gonna do wonders for morale, and everyone knows that having severely injured comrades to look after and carry around massively increases a units combat effectiveness >

Isn't this just another miserable Russian War? It feels like all of thier wars are like that, a large number of deaths in depressing circumstances, they never had good enough tech to match the west and just threw a ton of numbers in thier wars. >


erable Russian War? It feels like all of thier wars are like that, a large number of deaths in depressing circumstances, they never had good enough tech to match the west and just threw a

Sounds like Enemy at the Gates was more accurate than some people want to admit - and shows what is still the pinnacle of modern Russian tactics. >

God, no. Enemy at the Gates was extremely inaccurate in almost every aspect. Ww2 historians loathe the movie for a reason.
The blocking detachments, low ammo/rifles, human waves in 1943 was largely all bullshit (blocking detachments in Stalingrad were used as regular combat units, the Russians were outnumbered and needed fighters not political cops)
By Stalingrad the soviets actually had good battle doctrine and skills. They weren't the messy red army of 1941. Post war and post soviet union it absolutely decayed due to corruption and financial woes. >

My point is that the Russian army today is nothing like the 1943 red army >

true - seems like they were much more organized back then :) >

They're being sent back because they are expected to die for Putin. This is no longer a war, it's become a mass sacrificial ritual.