I always get annoyed by this concept that the Russians where ill-trained, ill-equipped, ill-motivated and got lucky because the enemy leader was a moron.
This attitude is a holdover from cold war propoganda.
The Russians had one of the best SMGs ever made (PPSH), they had excelelnt snipers who carried effective and modern (for the time) sniper rifles. many concepts of modern sniping where developed by the Russians.
The Russians turned rocket artillery into an art form with their masse katyusha bateries and today's western MLRS systems are a direct descendent.
While the Russians had a conscript force they where a professional conscript force. Sure they had a allot of, well publicised, ill-trained human wave units. But the hard fighting was done by the professionels such as the Siberian divisons.
The Germans may of invented Blitzkrieg, but the Russians made it their own with their rapid advance into Germany.
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