Quote Originally Posted by Beefy187
Only until she goes around naked screaming and swinging knife that is... Then you pay extra close attention

Its bit new but I hate watching Russians fighting in WW2. For example the movie "Enemy at the gates" Yea just make the poor Russians charge against the machinegun and expect them not to run away.
The problem is that this is actually accurate. Russian soliders were too terrified to run away. There are accounts of NKWD soliders (soviet political police) executing officers of a unit that broke out from encirclement becuse they violated order to stand and die.

In soviet winter offensive of 1941 cavalry division was ordered to charge across frozen river agains dug in german inf - they were almost totaly slaughtered and on german side there are reports of MG barrels melting as there was no time to replace them with spare ones.

In 1943 (44?) platton of german veterans held for 3 days soviet inf corps. Germans had enough MGs to arm most of soliders (1 per 3?) and soviets were asaulting through the gap between two forests, some 2km wide. After each wave was repelled they used art barrage. Germans obviously retreated before it fell. On the 3rd day one shell missed and hit close to place where germans retreated, killing commander and few soliders and so making rest retreat