PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Great Britain v. Soviet Union all out total war 1946.
Old 20th Sep 2016, 09:59
  #38 (permalink)  
Hempy
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: ɐıןɐɹʇsn∀
Posts: 1,994
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
PN, the Sovs had something no one else had. Superior manpower. Thousands of Soviet sappers died just laying down bridges over the half frozen Elbe, yet it didn't even count as a blip on their orbat.

The only question west of Berlin is morale. To the Sovs, WW2 was the 'Great Patriotic War'. The Germans had deceived Stalin by breaching the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and Stalin was pissed off completely.

After conquering Germany, morale may have been different if they were ordered to keep marching.
Hempy is offline