the second time i watched that movie i was actually screaming at the screen like “why aren’t you guys providing supporting fire you have heavy MGs i guess you don’t want to win” and this was before i was a filthy commie it just seemed so fucking illogical
but nah the movie said they just existed to waste what was obviously precious and rare ammo to murder their own forces because evil stalin
Word. And the 2 men 1 rifle thing, afaik, is bs too. The supply situation was very, very bad in Stalingrad, but never so bad that they didn’t have enough Mosins for everyone.
sounds reasonable and practical
the second time i watched that movie i was actually screaming at the screen like “why aren’t you guys providing supporting fire you have heavy MGs i guess you don’t want to win” and this was before i was a filthy commie it just seemed so fucking illogical
but nah the movie said they just existed to waste what was obviously precious and rare ammo to murder their own forces because evil stalin
Word. And the 2 men 1 rifle thing, afaik, is bs too. The supply situation was very, very bad in Stalingrad, but never so bad that they didn’t have enough Mosins for everyone.
so i’m guessing it was more like “rifle for everyone but here’s like a few magazines you’ll have to scavenge what you can”?
which was absolutely a situation the western allies encountered as well especially the airborne units