kenmac
Banned
elkarlo, this consistent refusal to accept inconvenient facts and your inability to accept that some of your ideas are not going to work does not bode well for the future.
Also, making your ideas dependent on kenmac's claims is an open invitation for board members well versed in history to shred your ideas.
As just two examples consider that his 'statistics' include the Soviets rushing 300,000 men west without even rifles and the total force level he claims was moved west over six months is less than what Zhukov actually brought west for just the December 1941 counter-offensive alone.
According to official sources the following troops had been
transferred from two soviet Far East fronts to the west armies during
july 1941 - july 1942 period: 28 rifle and cavalry divisions, 5 tank
divisions, 1 mechanized division, 5 rifle brigades, 14 artillery
brigades and 8 independent regiments (344676 men in total), during
almost the same period (august 1941 - october 1942) from the remaining
units in the Far East 235518 men more had been sent to the west as
"marching reinforcements".
Note also this does not include conscripts from the East not in Far East Front formations already.
As for some not having rifles I wouldnt think tank crews for example would need them would you?