Comments by "The Ride Never ends" (@therideneverends1697) on "Brandon Herrera"
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@Lapshism Mix of truths, there was not necessarily a shortage of arms for the red army, but penal battalions where a thing, as they are now apparently, they would take political dissidents, criminals, ect, and send them without arms to charge enemy positions in order to try to deplete ammunition stores before main attacks. It was not so much they did not have weapons to give said solders, its that they did not provide them because they where not trusted with weapons and their role was more to burn out the enemy with the added bonus of the fact the half of them that where probably slated to be executed anyways where shot down with German bullets at German expense.
Now the benefit to these penal battalions was that if the individual did manage to survive they where granted a full pardon, and folded into the general red army where they would be provided standard equipment.
Before you try to say "nuh uh," im related to people who where there, on the opposing side mind you, and they all say or said that Russian attacks where almost always headed with penal group charges to the extent that it still horrified the people who witnessed it 70 years after the fact.
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