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D.J.
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On 16 May 2022 15:32:04 GMT, maus <maus@dmaus.org> wrote:
> On 2022-05-16, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
>>> Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>>>> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
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>> The leadership difficulties in the Russian army go all the way back
>> to WWII. Unlike the western armed forces, the Russians don't have
>> an experienced NCO corp to run daily operations, rather they have
>> officers (and in the Soviet years, political handlers) doing the
>> hands-on work, and thus they "lead from the front". Hence the loss
>> of at least four generals so far, some as you note, may have been
>> indiginous losses.
>>
>> Speculation is unhealthy, leading to potentially dangerous false
>> conclusions.
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> I remember the old men's stories from WWI, of how the advancing soldiers
> would be FOLLOWED by officers with pistols in their hands, ready to
> shoot any soldier who hesitated.
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> In the early stages of barberossa, the russian political officers were shot
> immediatly on capture, as were the women soldiers. Horrible.
Some of the political officers were men, like Krushchev.
The Night Witches, Russian fighter-bomber pilots, were abused then
murdered upon capture by the Germans.
I thought it was myth, but turns out it is fact. A Russian woman heard
of her husband's death, talked Stalin into letting her be a tank
commander. She took on a number of German tanks, as part of various
attacks, and beat them. I don't remember if she survived the war or
not.
--
Jim
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