>le untrained peasant horde meme
Why is it so difficult to understand that all able-bodied men in Soviet union were conscripted for 2 to 5 years since 1939?
Le untrained peasant horde meme
Austin Johnson
Mason Bennett
noice
Jaxson Ramirez
>all able-bodied men
Impossible, we're talking about tens of millions in Soviet case.
Not much of entire population is ever mobilized, not even in large wars. General rule is that a country should be able to mobilize maximum 10% of its whole population in case of war.
Chase Harris
By 1945 it was mostly Mongolian rapists.
Lincoln Brooks
Because "historians" on Veeky Forums get their knowledge from video games, memes and infographs.
It's similar to "scientists thought world is flat 200 years ago" bullshit.
Parroting slogans without any deeper knowledge.
Thus a highly sophisticated and capable Soviet Army becomes "drunk Ivans clogging German MG's with their blood".
Angel Nelson
>able-bodied
>soviets
At least try to disguise yourselves. These were men who lived on rations long before the war even broke out
James White
That was a good thing.
About 34 000 000 Soldiers served in the Red army, which is about 17% of the 1941 Soviet population. (percentage of women is very small)
Levi Clark
Because nearly all battles between the Nazis and Soviets resulted in a far higher Soviet casualties, including their victories.
Stalingrad was so unusual in part because the casualties were roughly equivalent.
Man for man, the Soviet army simply was not that effective. Hence the memes.
Aiden Turner
I'm not an expert on history, but damn do those guys look Yugoslavian, like Tito's partisans.
I don't know if it's the mustache style, the faces that sort of looks Dinaric or something else, but if I were given this as a quiz I wouldn't say they are Soviets at all.
The image search links to articles saying this an image of Soviet soldiers but my instinct tells me they got it wrong.
Anybody else know better?
Michael Brown
Yes
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