Re tactical v strategic - the Soviets had a highly effective tactical air force which contributed greatly to the Red Army's relentless Westward progress in the last year of the war. The downside was their almost complete absence of a strategic bombing capability meant they contributed very little to the airborne destruction of German industrial targets, a fact that is glossed over in the standard Russian version of how they won the Great Patriotic War.
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