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Originally Posted by Schone23666
Didn't the Soviets have height limitations for their Motorized Rifle units just like they did for their tankers? I forget what they were exactly but I think around 5 feet 6 inches or so??
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Maybe, but I doubt it. Why waste all that manpower (i.e. taller folks)? The Soviets really never had any straight "leg" infantry units- pretty much every major Soviet infantry unit was a MRD. Folks over 5'6" or whatever couldn't all join the airborne/airmobile or mountain units (of which there were far, far fewer) and Soviet naval infantry were just as APC-bound as their landlubber comrades.