Placing the Fairey Battle.

[tcolvin]

Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski

Tony
I would strongly recommend to get accustomed to the recent publications, mainly Russian, concerning the eastern front. Certainly hordes of Half Tracks, Shermans, Jeeps, Studebakers, Airacobras and Bostons made the Red Army superior to the Western counterparts. Any qualities? Some Russians would hang butcher Zhukov by his balls. Referring to old propaganda is not the way to proper research.

Franek.

Butcher Zhukov, meet Butcher Harris!

I don't see why Russian dependence on Lend-Lease has anything to do with the qualities of the Red Army which also valued the boots and the steel and the gold braid they were sent.
The British also got Lend-Lease.
The Americans got all the British secrets from the atom bomb to Bletchley Park with centimetric radar along the way. So what?

I don't speak Russian. But I would appreciate a reference to what in your opinion is the best current English-language study of the Russian way of warfare.

I know Stalin was a better GROFAZ than Hitler, Churchill or FDR. But no one confuses that with the type of man he was - surely.

Tony