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Re: Myths and Legends of the Eastern Front: Reassessing the Great Patriotic War [off topic]
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Yes, Soviet pilots were paid for aerial victories. So what? What was incompetent, negligent and even criminal in this?
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It's realy interesting topic, Graham. Can you advice any books or articles with compearing efficency of these two tactics in WWII? I mean CAS vs interdiction.
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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...
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Re: Myths and Legends of the Eastern Front: Reassessing the Great Patriotic War [off topic]
Careful Jukka. Such incendiary remarks are... well, incendiary.
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If the Soviets had 10:1 superiority so why not to use it? Just like modest numbers do not necessarily mean prowess and expertise, superiority in numbers and/or materiel do not mean lack of tactical or operational skills. Where is incompetence?
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Also, interdiction was not unknown for VVS but with the available aircraft as Il-2 and not realy perfect educated flying personal, the CAS works better. If you know, who is the "god of war" according soviet difinition, you understand why the CAS was so important in soviet operation, especially by openings. But if necessary, VVS also could other: one prominent sample is the Lwow-Sandomir operation, where the planned counter-atack by german 8.(??) PzD was interdicted by VVS with very negative impact for whole german strategy.
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Why was the aircrew training even in 1944 so lacking? Because of the incompetence of the Soviet system.
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Under these condition, I don't believe, the soviet leadership and system was incompetent By the way, the training level was also improved in compare to 42-43.
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Re: Myths and Legends of the Eastern Front: Reassessing the Great Patriotic War [off topic]
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When I saw the author is Boris Sokolov, without hesitation, I decide I will skip it |
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Re: Myths and Legends of the Eastern Front: Reassessing the Great Patriotic War [off topic]
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Yeah, the author managed to make an insult to both Soviet and Germans with a single sentence |