Eastern Front with Gas (No Britain)

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Where can I learn more about this more persistant mustard gas? As far as I've been able to find out from online sources there doesn't seem to be a difference between WW1 and WW2 versions, but I'd like to know more.

So, hypothetically if the Germans mustard gas Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad, plus bomb Soviet oil facilities at Baku and other caucasian sources, how long could the Soviets continued to fight?

Depends on how they respond to the first round of attacks. With Soviet industry already moved east of the Urals their productive capacity won't be hurt much by the assault, the real question is will Stalin rush to save the population from the encroaching German onslaught? Either way scorched earth will definitely be the phrase of the day in the USSR.
 
You mean that they'd use the same gas weapons they have developed in close cooperation with the Soviet authorities in 1920s, right? The stuff they first produced and tested in Soviet Union at Trotsk? Against an army that has the most recent wide-spread combat experience from poison gas usage from the days of the Tambov Rebellion? And one that has strategic bombers capable of reaching Berlin, especially by night, from the Baltic bases?

Sounds like a winning plan :rolleyes:

Especially for an army that relies on horses for supply transport - good luck getting those supply trains through contaminated battlefields while keeping horses constantly on gas masks, and keeping those horses alive and fed during these same efforts.

To wrap it up: Weapons of mass destruction had their own balance of terror even during WW2, and there were other reasons that whims of Hitler why massive usage of gas was avoided by all sides - it would have only made things worse for all sides instead of quickly ending the war.
 

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You mean that they'd use the same gas weapons they have developed in close cooperation with the Soviet authorities in 1920s, right? The stuff they first produced and tested in Soviet Union at Trotsk? Against an army that has the most recent wide-spread combat experience from poison gas usage from the days of the Tambov Rebellion? And one that has strategic bombers capable of reaching Berlin, especially by night, from the Baltic bases?

Sounds like a winning plan :rolleyes:

Especially for an army that relies on horses for supply transport - good luck getting those supply trains through contaminated battlefields while keeping horses constantly on gas masks, and keeping those horses alive and fed during these same efforts.

To wrap it up: Weapons of mass destruction had their own balance of terror even during WW2, and there were other reasons that whims of Hitler why massive usage of gas was avoided by all sides - it would have only made things worse for all sides instead of quickly ending the war.

You mean those bombers the Soviets tried to use OTL and lost them all trying to attack Prussia and failing to land a single bomb on target? The Soviets had no equipment or experience night bombing, while the Germans already had experienced night fighters in 1940.
Also which gas weapons did the Germans develop with the Soviets??? Not the nerve gases, which only emerged after the Germans and Soviets broke off relations. The Mustard gas improvements came after too.
Overall the Germans had a decisive advantage in gas and deliver systems too.
 
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