Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "How BIG was the Red Army in WW2?" video.

  1. Honestly, I think one of the biggest issues for the Red Army Early war was, numbers. Not in men. But planes/tanks. I actually think, and I wish there was evidence to prove it, that out of fears of Stalin, everyone wanted to make positive reports back to Moscow. This is how you end up with scenarios in which the Red Airforce as a HUGE number of planes, but hardly any trained pilots to fly them. How they have more tanks than the next three nations combined but no logistics to support them. Why it all literally fell a part over night almost, despite on paper the Red Army was one of the strongest in the world, and attacking them should of been suicide. Yet they got steamrolled. I know people blame this on Stalin's purges often, but that doesn't explain why you'd have an entire tank divisions without any logistical support in my opinion, or issue new planes to air fields without pilots trained to fly them. It's like they had their priorities backwards. ie get the equipment to the front line before the personnel to operate them or support them even existed. I honestly think this was Spreadsheet warriors at a State/Military level all wanting to report back positive figures to the top man, not really expecting they'd actually have to have those personnel fight.
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