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The Role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War, Revised Edition - A Re-Examination (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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The Role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War, Revised Edition - A Re-Examination (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Series: Helion Studies in Military History
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This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the
role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet
government and Red Army, to which the author provides some
provocative answers. The primary question explored by the author,
however, regards the effectiveness of both the Red Army and of the
Soviet military economy. Dr. Sokolov argues that the chief defect
of the Soviet military economy was the disproportionate emphasis on
the production of tanks and aircraft at the expense of
transportation means and the means of command and control. This
leads the author to look at the role of Lend-Lease during the war.
Through the delivery of radio sets, trucks, jeeps, locomotives,
fuel, explosives and so on, the author concludes that Lend-Lease
was critical to the Red Army, and that the Soviet Union would not
have been able to wage a long war against Germany without the
Lend-Lease supplies - a conclusion that defies decades of Soviet
claims to the contrary. Finally, the author looks at the still very
controversial and hot topic of Red Army losses in the war, which
was taboo for decades, arguing that this is an effective measure of
the Red Army's military performance. He and other scholars have
estimated that the Red Army's losses were on the scale of 27
million, three times larger than the official estimates, and
approximately 10 times greater than the German losses on the
Eastern Front. He argues that such horrendous casualties and such
an unfavorable ratio for the Red Army were the result of the
relatively low value placed on human life in both the Russian
Empire and the Soviet Union, and the much more destructive nature
of the Soviet totalitarian regime as compared with the Third Reich,
which cowed the Soviet generals and officers into total
subservience. Due to the elimination of all political opposition
and the total control over people's lives, soldiers and civilians
could not protest against the crude tactics that resulted in such a
very high rate of losses.
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