Most underrated / overrated WW2 soviet commanders?
>>18521861Semyon Budyonny achieved a legendary status in Russia and was legendarily bad. He has lost like each and every battle he was in charge of and was eventually removed from command altogether - but it didn't harm his reputation in the slightest kek.
>>18522187To be entirely fair, his constant insistence that horses were more important than motorized transport wasn’t entirely wrong lol. Both Germany and the USSR ended up relying on them way more than trucks. Trucks need a constant stream of rubber, ball bearings, fuel, oil, etc etc to haul around an artillery piece, load of supplies or anything else. Horses just need water and grass once a day. You can almost argue that he did as much to win the war via advocating for a giant horse-breeding program as he did to lose it via his command incompetence
>>18522411I wonder if the exploits of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps aren't (somewhat) exaggerated; they do seem too good to be true. Wikipedia says that it was them who defeated Heinz Guderian at Moscow (which ultimately led to his dismissal) but there is a [citation needed] there lol. Might be a battlefield legend.
>>18522441>I wonder if the exploits of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps aren't (somewhat) exaggerated; they do seem too good to be trueLike everything else pertaining to the Eastern Front i'd put it at sitting somewhere in-between myth and reality. I don't have much trouble believing that fast-moving Russian light infantry on horseback through snowstorms often did well in chopping up, routing and spreading panic amongst masses of starving, freezing German/Romanian/Italian riflemen caught in a blizzard. But there are also several well-documented instances in 1941-early 1942 of Russian cavalry charges getting mulched by going headlong into entrenched and ready German positions with the krauts taking almost no losses.
I would say Brusilov. He was a great tactician. He made great innovations and achieved great success despite limited ressources.But the most underestimated is Castlenau : he have an impressive list of success, but all of its actions were always overshadowed for some reasons : despite being a decisive factor for the Marne victory, his success at Charmes and Grand Couronne were overshadowed by the frontwide distaster then the battle of the Marne itself. He warned about the danger at Verdun and played a huge role at holding the line in the first days, but all the credit went to Petain who came after him. Being Joffre second in command, he was sacked when hecwas replaced by Foch. In 1918, we was supposed to deliver the final blow to the collapsing german army with a big final offensive planned in november but the peace ended this opportunity. He was also a decent human being : he lost his two sons in battle sobhe knew the price of life. His men loved him.
Soviet:Overrated: ZhukovUnderrated: Konev (should have been Tukhachevsky)German: Overrated: RommelUnderrated: HeinriciBritish:Overrated: MontgomeryUnderrated: Wavell or SlimBritain had many great criminally underrarted generals who were treated like trash because a certain cigar smoking narcissist in London did everything he could to fuck up strategies and then shifted the blame for the consequences that followed.
>>18524405Good high effort answer but you misread the OP lol
>>18524440Slim is underrated because his entire front was a bit of a nothing burger (my great uncle was a Chindit there btw so don't accuse me of being some baiting Yankoid). Also the post-war homo allegations.
