Why were russians so shitty in WW1 that they couldn't beat shitty Austro-Hungarian troops and reserve German divisions?

Why were russians so shitty in WW1 that they couldn't beat shitty Austro-Hungarian troops and reserve German divisions?

the "Russia sucked in ww1" is a bit of a meme that people base almost entirely off Tannenberg, they nearly annihilated the entire Austro-Hungarian army, who needed constant fucking help from Germany

>getting BTFO by fucking Italy and Russia

Austria-hungary was a fucking embarrassment kek

Brusilovs offensive was the only notable achievement from them and it was against an A-H force. Every battle against the germans resulted in complete catastrophe

>be austria
>try and fight war on more fronts than Germany because of Germany
>need german help
>100 years later anons on history fourms shitpost about you

I thought the russians did fine against the turks. And the A-H empire only lost to Italy in the last months of the war

They didn't have Zhukov, so the Russians were too busy worrying about minefields which cost them a lot of battles.

Brusilov's offensive was the exception of that rule.Also, the Austrians constantly needed help from the Germans in fighting the Russians, who by the way, were poorly led.

>only the brusilov offensive
You are retards, the Russians also had a blast pushing the turk's shit in, in the caucasus

They held up against Austria-Hungary plus Germany splendidly in the west, at the same time putting enormous pressure on Ottomans in the east.

The Russians defeated themselves. That being said, they were embarrassed on the field every time germany was involved and only ever seemed to be able to beat up on the Austrians and ottomans, who were somehow even more pathetic than Russia

WTF ARE YOU EVEN DOING WW1 POWER RANKINGS
1)Italy, like nigga how many times are you gonna lose the same damn battle on the same damn field.
2)Austria-Hungary, like nigga what are you doing like nigga how are you getting beat by Russia like nigga half of them don't even have guns nigga like what happened to your country bro like I don't see it on the map anymore nigga
3)Ottomans, like damn nigga how do you want your empire? illogically carved up with no thought to ethnic boundaries, creating minority-majority infighting for hundreds of years and ensuring that a great power in the middle east will never happen again? yes sir we'll get to fucking your shit up right away.
4)Russia, like really my nigga Tsar what are you doing worrying about your family and being a lil bitch trying to fight a war when your country is having a revolution like nigga what are you thinking nigga like really nigga you're country's shit is about to be fucked up for 100 years like nigga think about this for a second