Just curious.
They’re pretty much doing the same thing today in Ukraine.
It is very accurate. It has been thoroughly documented that many times Russians soldiers were sent out without guns and told to find a gun from another dead Russian.
That is factually incorrect. Apart from conscripted civilian brigades and penal batallions, Soviet soldiers didn’t suffer from a lack of small arms or ammunition. What they lacked was fire support in the form of artillery pieces, tanks and aeroplanes.
The accurate parts of this scene are the lack of direction from officers and the NKVD blocking divisions. Other than that, this scene and this movie is laughable from a historical perspective.
The Soviets didn’t even deny it.
They knew they didn’t have to: tankies of the future would run interference on their history no matter what the actual records show
Soviet propaganda actually pushed the narrative of heroic soldiers running toward the enemy while unarmed.
