Soviet WMDs?

Hey Guys,

What kind of Weapons of Mass Destruction did the Soviet Union have during the Second Great War? Obviously not Atomic Weaponry, but what about chemical and biological weaponry?

What kind of chemical weapons did they have? And what was the stock of these? Same questions also apply to biological weaponry.

I read on Wikipedia that the Soviets may have used a biological weapon against the Germans on the Eastern Front:
Wikipedia said:
Tularemia was allegedly used against German troops in 1942 near Stalingrad[8]. Around 10,000 cases of tularemia had been reported in the Soviet Union during the years of 1941 and 1943. However, the number of cases jumped to more than 100,000 in the year of Stalingrad outbreak. German panzer troops fell ill in such significant numbers during the late summer of 1942 that German military campaign came to a temporary halt. German soldiers became ill with the rare pulmonary form of tularemia, which indicate the use of an aerosol biological weapon (the ordinary transmission pathway is through ticks and rodents). According to Kenneth Alibek the used tularemia weapon had been developed in the Kirov military facility [8].
 
the Soviet were very activ in Bioweapon Research durning WWII

the story about Bioweapon use in Stalingrad is from Colonel Kanatjan Alibekov
who life in U.S. today as Ken Alibek

more about that story in this book:
Alibek, Ken and Steven Handelman (1999),
Biohazard:
The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World -
Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
,
Random House, ISBN 0-385-33496-6.

the Bioweapon story make some sense at first look
but if you look how the German Wehrmacht operate
like there bad Sanitation Guidelines and the resulting problems with Dysentery and Tularemia.
is this the Answer on wat happen in siege of Stalingrad
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=140310
 
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