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boykin530 · 09-09-2008, 10:10 AM

Harry Ree---Totally agree

No. It's not possible that you "totally agree". In my other post I didnt even comment on this idiotic claim:
Soviet strategic and high level operational leadership was superb. However, lower level leadership (corps and below) was uniformly dismal.
Has anyone here ever in their life heard an American say this ? I have not. Americans believe Stalin's strategic leadership was superb ? That so-called American bias does not exist. This is complete fiction. Maybe someone 12 years old or less who's just totally guessing. But it doesn't take long to figure out that Stalin was a disaster for his officers and troops on the Eastern Front. He didn't allow the Red Army lines to move forward in 40/41 in order to take up appropriate defendable positions along the Eastern Front. His stupidity and naiviety of Adolf Hitler caused the initial rout of the Red Army all along the Eastern Front, then he shoots the officers at the front because somehow it's their fault ?? His order of "no retreat" caused the annihilation of armies. Troops that successfully escaped encirclement were actually punished for corwardice...
But back to the point. How would you "totally agree", Harry Ree, or anyone else that "totally agrees" since many of these so-called myths do not exist ?

09-09-2008, 10:10 AM	#70 (permalink)
boykin530 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 21	Harry Ree---Totally agree No. It's not possible that you "totally agree". In my other post I didnt even comment on this idiotic claim: Soviet strategic and high level operational leadership was superb. However, lower level leadership (corps and below) was uniformly dismal. Has anyone here ever in their life heard an American say this ? I have not. Americans believe Stalin's strategic leadership was superb ? That so-called American bias does not exist. This is complete fiction. Maybe someone 12 years old or less who's just totally guessing. But it doesn't take long to figure out that Stalin was a disaster for his officers and troops on the Eastern Front. He didn't allow the Red Army lines to move forward in 40/41 in order to take up appropriate defendable positions along the Eastern Front. His stupidity and naiviety of Adolf Hitler caused the initial rout of the Red Army all along the Eastern Front, then he shoots the officers at the front because somehow it's their fault ?? His order of "no retreat" caused the annihilation of armies. Troops that successfully escaped encirclement were actually punished for corwardice... But back to the point. How would you "totally agree", Harry Ree, or anyone else that "totally agrees" since many of these so-called myths do not exist ? Last edited by Gotthard Heinrici; 09-09-2008 at 10:47 AM.