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Originally Posted by Andrei Demjanko
It could be viewed the other way - VVS aircraft completed their mission and returned to base safely, successfully evading opposition. Is this incompetence? Or maybe this tactic was quite smart? After all, it's Finnish fighters who needed to engage, especially in the summer of 1944. And they let Soviet aircraft to escape. So what side in your example failed to accomplish the mission and was less adept in tactics?
Yes, Soviet pilots were paid for aerial victories. So what? What was incompetent, negligent and even criminal in this?
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1. Completing their mission by e.g. abandoning the bombers they were supposed to escort?
2. You don't see anything perverse in that an ideology based on abolishing money altogether actually resorted to capitalist-bourgeoisie methods of incentive? Weren't capitalist-bourgeoisie to be hanged by their own intestines?
3. You should compare the strength ratio between Finnish and Soviet air forces in 1944 summer. The numerical superiority of the Soviet forces was closer to 10 to 1. Perhaps the Soviet "scientific" art of war needed more than 10 to 1 superiority...