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More precisely, only penal units had full units of NKVD troops behind them, because it was *correctly* anticipated that they were far less reliable than regular troops. Regular units *did* have barrier units at some times, however these were chosen from reliable veteran troops seconded to NKVD...

This is not even remotely credible unless you can provide citations to these supposed "reports". And still ignoring verified facts, like only outright penal units had actual NKVD barrier squads, and there's no evidence that NKVD actually machine-gunned retreating soldiers as imagined in...

Okay, so according to @ATP, actual evidence should be outright ignored because if it was true, a widely disproven myth about barrier troops wouldn't work either! This guy probably thinks Hollywood movies portraying the Soviets in WWII are factual documentaries. . .