How bad was it to fight on the eastern front? What if youre a Soviet soldier, or an Axis one?
>>18650351Like Bakhmut on steroids, every single battle. Shit time.
>>18650351Fucking terrible constantly getting encircled and partisans blowing shit up behind the lines
Partisans blew up your supply lines so you had limited food, water, munitions, fuel and medical supplies. Then the soviets bombed the fuck out of you with artillery and then their tanks roll in with infantry on top to fuck you up.
>>18650372>>18650373so if you were on the soviet side it wasnt too bad?
>>18650351At least if you are with the soviets you get a coat.
>>18650393Depending on the time, being a soviet soldier was actually much worse. Nearly the entire Red Army during the opening of Barbarossa was wiped out and had to be rebuilt from scratch from conscripts.
>>18650374well it was really bad during the early parts of operation barbarossa stalin was essentially sending whole armies to get destroyed just to hold the german advance for a few days but after stalingrad it wasnt that bad for the soviets all things considering
>>18650404Yeah, same thing happened to the wermacht, hard to pick a side in a mutual war or annihilation
I feel like everyone who fought in WWII would be disappointed with the outcome of it lol.
>>18650686Lol.
>>18650686All, except for one party dude
>>18650691If the Germans had won, Dirlewanger would have retired as a respectable old gentleman and upstanding citizen.
>>18650351Hell on earth for everyone involved.
>>18651019Even the little Eurasian beavers that lived in the Eatern European wetlands?
>>18650360don't forget about the cold which could reach as low as -30 Celcius which will freeze you to death quickly even with decent clothing, will having horrible supply lines.
>One man gets the rifle, the other gets the bullets.Even if you don't have enough guns for everyone, wouldn't it make more sense for one man to get the rifle AND the bullets, and the other man to be empty-handed?
>>18651439Especially them.
>>18650374Depends on when you joined. If you joined early on, you'd get ass raped. If you joined late, you'd be doing the ass raping.
>>18651013But would he have wanted that?
>>18651523not sure if that was a true story but it would make sense because soviets did use their men as fodder. They know that someone will die and the other will pick up ammo/rifles
>>18651582No, he probably would've relapsed and then gotten sent to a concentration camp or just shot.There's no fucking way Dirlewanger could ever function as a civilian
>>18651523the entire thing is a meme to begin with, the Soviets never really had a problem arming their troops with basic things like guns
>>18650351Pretty bad
