• SSTF@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There’s no evidence that he was anything other than a very outdated military thinker. He got his military start in 1912, making many of the advancements of the 1940s seem very newfangled. He fought on the side of revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution.

    You can see his outdated military opinions causing problems during the Winter War against the Finns, showing he wasn’t simply pulling punches against the Germans.

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      9 months ago

      You’re probably right, and I was just shooting from the hip. It’s crazy how the enemy didn’t even need to turn him for him to unwittingly assist them.

      What a dope.