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Soviet Army, World War II
© 2006
205 pages; 23 chapters
© 2006
205 pages; 23 chapters
The western and Russian media present the Red Army of World
War II as a valiant horde fighting hard to avenge Nazi atrocities.
That view of the Red Army is patently untrue. Red Army Tactics
describes how the Red Army in World War II was organized and
fought at the regimental level and below. The unique tactics of
Red Army small units provide important lessons for professional
soldiers everywhere. However, this book does not glorify the
Red Army. It accurately depicts common soviet soldiers as a drunk,
hate-filled, murderous group looking over their shoulders at soviet
secret police units ready to kill them if they showed any sign of
hesitation. Most of the glorious breakthroughs of the Red Army in
World War II were obtained by the sacrifice of hundreds of suicide
penal battalions, forced to attack into the jaws of certain death by
NKVD blocking troops. Red Army Tactics is a surprising book,
filled with information available nowhere else.
War II as a valiant horde fighting hard to avenge Nazi atrocities.
That view of the Red Army is patently untrue. Red Army Tactics
describes how the Red Army in World War II was organized and
fought at the regimental level and below. The unique tactics of
Red Army small units provide important lessons for professional
soldiers everywhere. However, this book does not glorify the
Red Army. It accurately depicts common soviet soldiers as a drunk,
hate-filled, murderous group looking over their shoulders at soviet
secret police units ready to kill them if they showed any sign of
hesitation. Most of the glorious breakthroughs of the Red Army in
World War II were obtained by the sacrifice of hundreds of suicide
penal battalions, forced to attack into the jaws of certain death by
NKVD blocking troops. Red Army Tactics is a surprising book,
filled with information available nowhere else.
Review Table of Contents
“The communist regime, being a totally heartless and evil tyranny, was used to murdering millions of human beings. A
few hundred thousand dead penal battalion inmates were of no concern to Russia's gangster ruling elite.
Kept under heavy guard in assembly areas near the front, penal units were brought forward and issued weapons
moments before they were ordered: "... Advance to attack! ..." Then their machine-gun-armed NKVD guard
companies would herd them into the teeth of German fire. "...They often attacked through minefields as 'tramplers,'
whose bodies by the score marked the passage of the Red Army through a field...In most Soviet attacks, several penal
battalions were completely wiped out..."
The prominent Russian military historian Dmitry Volkogonov obtained classified information from Russian state military
archives verifying that over 120,000 Soviet soldiers were sentenced to capital punishment and another 800,000 were
ordered to penal battalions. In fact, nearly two million Red Army combatants were thus murdered by “their own” Soviet
NKVD units during 1941-45.”
few hundred thousand dead penal battalion inmates were of no concern to Russia's gangster ruling elite.
Kept under heavy guard in assembly areas near the front, penal units were brought forward and issued weapons
moments before they were ordered: "... Advance to attack! ..." Then their machine-gun-armed NKVD guard
companies would herd them into the teeth of German fire. "...They often attacked through minefields as 'tramplers,'
whose bodies by the score marked the passage of the Red Army through a field...In most Soviet attacks, several penal
battalions were completely wiped out..."
The prominent Russian military historian Dmitry Volkogonov obtained classified information from Russian state military
archives verifying that over 120,000 Soviet soldiers were sentenced to capital punishment and another 800,000 were
ordered to penal battalions. In fact, nearly two million Red Army combatants were thus murdered by “their own” Soviet
NKVD units during 1941-45.”
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