This sounds like the question of "Do you get wetter if you were to run in the rain rather than walk in the rain?" Wet is wet and dead is dead
Suffice it to say that a lot of lives were "sacrificed" in WW2 without regard to the humanity of it all, unlike today's kinder/gentler armed forces.
Clearing minefields by marching over them
- Oleg Grigoryev
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Re: Mines
do you people read even occasioanlly waht was posted here?May 10th 1940 wrote:lisset wrote:Is it true that Zhukov in converstion said to an American General (post war) that the best way of clearing a mine field wa sto send the infantry across it ( ? Penal troops).
Yes he said to an US general Our infantry crosses the battlefield if theres a minefield or not.
before the battle of the seelowe heights he got delayed because his shipment of prisoners hadn't arrived yet. They also used on Stalins orders POW or russian civillans that where taken prisoner by the german.
after the war Stalin send 1.5 million POW to siberia as traitors