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> Yes, the SU on all levels did fuckups but they adapted quick, they had vision, and breddy gud ideas.
The SU military was inept at the start of WW2. It took the Germans all of 3 months to go from Poland to Moscow all while inflicting the largest encirclement in the history of war repeatedly... You know what city held out for 3 months? Mariupol...
Sure, the SU military was large and had strengths, as any military of that size would. It had some surprisingly good tank designs during a time period when tank designs had no military thought behind them. The T-34 and KV series comes to mind of course. But the Soviets also had a lot of rather bad tank designs and weren't gifted at mechanics anyway. Anyway, the Soviet military was inept at the start and it showed.
> lands is 20th grade in importance
Um... no. Look at how far Russia is willing to go today for Crimea and the Donbas... They would love to get Poland, especially since Russian lands isn't well developed like European land. A big poor nation like the USSR would love to get ripe central European developed lands to plunder.
> They were still using their preWW1 playbook
What I meant by this was more that, they were thinking in a classical battle of annihilation sense. If War between the Germans and Soviets came, it would come in one big aggressive battle and the Soviet forces should be ready to go on the offensive. They weren't prepared for a defense in depth, draw out attrition style war. Again, it showed as they were pushed all the way to Moscow in 3 months.
> denied the mobility and the actual combined use of the arms
How do you "deny the combined use of arms"?
The problem with the Soviets in the Winter War was that they didn't know the terrain and they were restricted to roads in which the smaller finnish force could ambush and destroy Russians marching on... not unlike the Battle of Kiev in 2022.
If the Russians were good at combined arms, that wouldn't be a problem because they would apply the right weapons to the situation (light finnish troops on skis). But they weren't.. So they got cut off, surrounded, and destroyed.
>>/50158/
Russia propaganda is like that. I can't tell you how many times I have heard the "our mistakes are actually strengths you just don't know how strong we are fear us" line.
I call a horse a horse. I don't convince people that donkeys are horses.