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Crueldwarf
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AHC: better behaved Red Army
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Also this Erenburg quote was looking weird to me, so I decided to look for the original article. It actually doesn't have anything like...
Monday at 12:04 AM
Crueldwarf
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AHC: better behaved Red Army
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Stalin indeed wielded an absurd amount of power personally. He just used this power not to control what other people do. He used that...
Sunday at 11:51 PM
Crueldwarf
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AHC: better behaved Red Army
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Does it come from Tito after Yugoslav-Soviet split? I very much doubt that Stalin would have said something like that. It is just stupid...
Sunday at 11:33 PM
Crueldwarf
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AHC: better behaved Red Army
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Stalin did exactly that. There is no indication that Stalin ever wanted 'to exact revenge' or somehow encouraged such behaviors or gave...
Sunday at 10:50 PM
Crueldwarf
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WI: 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings Exposed?
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"Jet fuel cannot melt steel beams".
May 4, 2024
Crueldwarf
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Barbarossa without the Great Purge
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Tukhachevsky wasn't popular either in the army nor among the wider populace. It is Stalin who actually was popular and it is the reason...
Apr 25, 2024
Crueldwarf
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Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back
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You misunderstood my point. Moral qualms were real. People didn't like the after-effects of chemical weapon usage and considered it...
Apr 24, 2024
Crueldwarf
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Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back
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It wouldn't. WW2-era poison agents suck as area denial weapons because they dissipate very quickly and simply not persistent enough...
Apr 24, 2024
Crueldwarf
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Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back
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If you expend the same amount of delivery platforms and ordinance tonnage on conventional explosives the result would be better than if...
Apr 24, 2024
Crueldwarf
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Barbarossa without the Great Purge
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To clarify the issue somewhat: I do not claim that dual command system was in any way beneficial. What I'm saying that Soviet command...
Apr 23, 2024
Crueldwarf
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Barbarossa without the Great Purge
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Pre-Purge generals for the most part were of the same breed (so to speak) as the post-Purge ones. As I said previously, Purges were...
Apr 23, 2024
Crueldwarf
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AHC: optimize Soviet performance in WW2
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When this idea will die in fire at last? Germany fought for FOUR freaking years without any deliveries of oil or any other materials...
Apr 23, 2024
Crueldwarf
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Barbarossa without the Great Purge
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It is again something of a centerpiece of mythology about Red Army. Soviet commanders had plenty of local initiative and freedom and...
Apr 22, 2024
Crueldwarf
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Barbarossa without the Great Purge
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Basically, the answer is simple. Purges were entirely incidental to the outcome of Barbarossa. They barely affected it because the...
Apr 21, 2024
Crueldwarf
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How could've Trotsky took power?
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Trotsky primary issue was his personality and approach to relationships. He basically aggravated the entirety of higher echelon of the...
Apr 16, 2024
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