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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml to c/games@lemmygrad.ml

i know COD WAW is one of them where it has the best portrayal of the soviets, but the other COD games where you also get to play as the soviets/red army soldier like in the original COD (COD 2003) and in COD 2 - are they just as good? or at least, not as problematic as with the newer cod games?

because i refuse to play any game that's just pure crystallized american state propaganda and talks shit about the USSR. fuck off with that shit.

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~The USSR actually killed deserters, but it was rare and in deseperation~~ (read salad), the rifles thing was explained in the video I think, what happened was the soviet soldiers got put in a place with half the required rifles then later more rifles came and they all had rifles

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The USSR did not actually kill retreating men in the field. Blocking detachments were mainly made up of the worst soldiers in a unit and were primarily used to round up malingerers and send them back to the front. There were also roughly 100-250 men in each blocking detachment, and each group was expected to enforce no-retreat orders on a regiment of roughly 40,000-50,000 men. The primary politcal goal of blocking detachments was to persuade officers from ordering panicked retreats in order to prevent the front line from collapsing. If individual units needed to fall back, they would be allowed to.

If a solider was suspected of serious desertion, they would be arrested and tried under court martial, not shot on the spot.

The only caveat to this is that Penal troops were followed by armed NKVD officers which would kill them on the spot for attempting to either surrender to the Germans, or escape from captivity.

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago
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