Timeline for How efficiently did the Red Army conduct itself during the invasion of Poland in 1939?
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| May 13, 2021 at 19:34 | comment | added | Greg | Let us be realistic: SU was backstabbing a country which is in a middle of a blitz-war with the most capable army of the continent and its army was in the middle of total collapse. Poland was also totally unprepared to a two front war, initially leading all his army to the German border. I am not sure that doing well in such a situation is something extraordinary. | |
| May 13, 2021 at 15:49 | vote | accept | Tom Au | ||
| May 13, 2021 at 8:46 | answer | added | rs.29 | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 11, 2021 at 11:20 | comment | added | jwenting | Katyn forest massacre rings a bell? The mass murder of so many people in so short a time is highly efficient (and no, I'm not defending it at all) and was done on orders from Stavka, so not a loss of command structure at all. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 2:25 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 10, 2021 at 21:28 | answer | added | Yasskier | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 10, 2021 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1391860611584233474 | ||
| May 10, 2021 at 19:05 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | 2 remarks: First, the Finnish war can be misleading: there were no shortages of capable military officers who thought the Red Army was doing it the wrong way, they were just not in charge. Khalkin Gol was contemporary, for example. Second, the Red Army's dismal performance in 1941 might be less due to ineptitude in general, but more to the specifics of Stalin's idiotic defense-in-place orders which led, time and again, to massive encirclements that were the sweet spot for German Kesselschlacht doctrine. That would not have been apparent when attacking Poland. | |
| May 10, 2021 at 18:35 | comment | added | Zmur | The effect of the repressions is overestimated. There are reports from major military manuvers of the RA before and after the repressions and they generally don't show drastic difference in military operations quality. | |
| May 10, 2021 at 18:25 | history | asked | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 4.0 |