[Railcarmover]

Barn,you mentioned all the ways they beat the nazis..they were resourceful,stole or commandeered anything that helped them and would work as a team without thought for gain.The political kommissar was as deadly to them as the germans,more than enough evidence of kommissar's forcing unarmed troops into direct battle,ordering them to pick up the guns of their dead comrades...at gun point..They drank anything remotely resembling alcohol off the march,in east prussia hundreds of the died or went blind from drinking wood alcohol and industrial solvent..tough,ruthless and callous,it is estimated a million babies were born to german mothers by rape from red army soldiers.They defeated the cream of the german army,over 200 divisions,the best the germans put afield..in contrast the rest of the allies combined defeated about 40..the simple tough easily cannibalised GAZ fit them like a glove..The germans considered them 'untermensch'..sub human,except the landsers,the front line german soldier..he respected Ivan, the frontoviki..