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Alright then, one thing that the Soviets seem to get right (and I’ve heard people in the military or who work with it attest to this) is their submarines. Apparently they can dive very deep.

As the old saying goes, you don't fix what isn't broken. At least the Soviet tanks were more reliable than Soviet cars...

Strangely enough, even though the T34 was a mess, apparently the Soviets got ludicrously good at building tanks during the Cold War.

As I understand it, the T34 was also a rather difficult tank to get out of quickly if things went up in flames... I think old school Commies still operate under a “might makes right” mentality, instead of being constant bleeding hearts. There’s a brutal honesty to them, which makes them a...

Well, the Soviets were a bunch of totalitarian lunatics who sought to enforce their vision on the world. They didn’t see the Polish as Helots though. The worst crimes of Communism are usually the result of the broken ideology being forced on situations where it just won’t work and millions of...

The Third Reich would, unfortunately, get the opportunity to implement General Plan Ost though. Not so fond of the Soviets, but I’d rather that the Slavs weren’t slaughtered in their tens of millions.

Russia had enough warm bodies to slow down the German advance until Marshal Zhukov could shout down Stalin. Once the actual soldiers got control, the Red Army started to change as a fighting force. By 1945 it was an unstoppable armoured fist, filled with crack troops who essentially ran over...