I don’t think that does the Red Army justice. It was a brutal, ideologically driven force that absorbed horrific losses and kept fighting. It wasn’t a “warrior cult” in the Japanese or Nazi sense, but it wasn’t a bunch of civilians who’d “rather be doing anything else,” either.
The red army is a similar story. They were mostly farmers who were tired of farming for rich people.
I don’t think that does the Red Army justice. It was a brutal, ideologically driven force that absorbed horrific losses and kept fighting. It wasn’t a “warrior cult” in the Japanese or Nazi sense, but it wasn’t a bunch of civilians who’d “rather be doing anything else,” either.