[wjr123]

Uhh, no. The Russians used human wave tactics during WW2 quite extensively.

The NKVD — an earlier name for the KGB — was hated by the Russian troops for lining up soldiers and requiring them to move forward. Behind tham were NKVD machine gunns to make sure that happened.

If you were a military prisoner for some conduct problem then you got to be a mine clearing meat machine. Lots faster than traditional methods.

Stalin was a murderous jerk.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The Russians used human wave tactics during WW2 quite extensively.

The Red Army did not use human waves. It's a myth, like so much about the Eastern Front - including the widely-held belief that the USSR outproduced Germany.

In World War II, the Russians employed "Deep Battle," a strategy that emphasized destroying and disorganizing enemy forces at the line of contact, but also throughout the depth of the battlefield, primarily to inflict a decisive strategic defeat on the enemy's logistical capabilities.