2007-08-03 07:49:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Not in th least. far from it, they had focused all ther resources o njust such a hammer blow, right into the heart of Germany. It was pay back for the betray of Hitler in 1941, for the two had been close allies since Hitlers coming to power in 1933, and they even studied each other tactics together, and war planned on conquering Europe, but when Hitler, got to power hungry and turned on his best and far strongest ally ( italy was weak, and Japan was distant, and never a real supportive either way aly to one another). The equally physco mad man Joseph stalin was going to literally jam all his military might down Germanys jproverbila throat, and that it did, that wa a juggernaught D-day had wish it had been. Number show that the Soviets had several armored divisions in reserve, and several dozen infantry units backed up all the way to Moscow. Once stalin did the genius move of taking apart and relocationg all his large tank ,airplane and arms factories in to siberia to keep them out of germanys outdistants hands, it was just a matter of time, as Hitler Knew, that the Soviet would supply and build all new Divisions and slam into Germany's depleted units on the eastern front, and when they crumbled they did not stop until they wher knocking on Adolfs front door as to speak.
2007-08-03 19:38:44 · answer #1 · answered by edjdonnell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both the Russian and German armies each lost over 1 milllion soldiers during the Battle of Berlin. The Soviets had a huge army pounding Berlin and weren't overstreched. Berlin fell at the end of April 1945. The Germans officially surrounded about 10 days later.
2007-08-03 15:02:18 · answer #2 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
At that time they were bringing up 17 and 16 year olds into their replacement units, but they more than made up for this deficit with overwhelming numbers of war materiel>
2007-08-03 14:53:23 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Stat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they were not, they had more soldiers than the germans but were short of munitions.,plus they had only one front to fight as they had a non agression pact with japan,also the german soldiers tried to go to the opposite front and surrender en masse to the english and amercan forces as they were treated much beter when surrenderingto them than to the russians
2007-08-03 15:16:00 · answer #4 · answered by sshueman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is believed that they were, but made little difference since the German army was pretty much a goner.
Some believe that if the US could have pushed them back with out mush difficulty, but that was not our policy at the time.
2007-08-03 14:53:04 · answer #5 · answered by e13333 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The one thing the Russians had no problem with was manpower.
What they did have a problem with was equipment, which is why they had to use German weapons and ammunition looted from dead enemies.
2007-08-03 14:52:48 · answer #6 · answered by Weatherman 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
well they had been promised a Western front years before
2007-08-03 14:59:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋