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Originally Posted by Tenchu
It's not the equipment that win a war. You have to have the Infantry to hold the ground once you've taken it.
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But your infantry needs bullets, clothes, food, and many other things besides. How else could the Soviet Army hold off the Germans? By throwing stones?
In World War 2 the equipment
was the deciding factor. The Germans surrendered after the battle of Stalingrad only because they didn't have the supplies to continue. Firstly, the Germans penetrated into the Soviet Union too quickly for their supplies to catch up, and the long distance between Germany and Stalingrad (nearly 1000 miles) made the supply line difficult to secure and open to attack. As a result of the lack of supplies, the German attack faltered, and the German soldiers had to endure a Russian winter for which they were ill-prepared. This delay gave the Soviet Army time to regroup and reorganize, and the rest is history.
And the last fact, we can't forget that Germany and the Soviet Union were
allies (both having signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, or German-Soviet pact), before Hitler betrayed the pact, and invaded. People don't seem to realize that the Nazi Germans were Socialists (National Socialists, or Nazi for short). As part of this pact, Germany was to supply the Soviet Union with manufactured goods, whilst the Soviets were to supply Germany with the raw materials it needed to conduct it's war.
As a result of this alliance, and with the approval of Hitler, the Soviet Army occupied Eastern Poland, and militarily invaded Finland. The Soviets then occupied the Baltic States, and took Northern Romania as well.
Yes, the Soviets were wonderful "allies" in the war, weren't they?