It depends more on discipline and obedience rather than marksmanship drilling.
The Russian Federation in the modern world still trains its troops the same way. The Motostrelki were the Soviet Unions main infantry unit during the cold war. These ideas marked the USSR's superiority over NATO's conventional forces during the arms race, after President Reagan's reign, however, the USSR had lost its arms superiority, as the Union itself was crumbling from turmoil and pressure from its neighbors. Instead, it believed in massed tank formations, supported by infantry, where Infantry would be securing artillery, or acting as scouts. The results of the Great Purge were experienced in the Winter Wars, where the USSR suffered massive losses.ĭuring the Cold War, marksmanship exercises were extended, but even then the USSR did not believe in Infantry any longer.
When Joseph Stalin initiated the Great Purge, many commanders in charge of training were killed, and many newly placed commanders were too afraid to teach their soldiers something that will help them in war, since they feared death, as well. During WWII however, the USSR began looking at other military theories which involved more armor-dependant approaches with assaults. There, the tanks would destroy important equipment, whilst the massed infantry formation would search for enemy emplacements which may disrupt the assault breakthrough.Ĭombined arms was mainly what the USSR aimed for they had the numbers to overwhelm an enemy and the industrial elements to mass-produce AFVs. The strategy to an assault within the USSR involved tanks leading assaults in the middle, while Infantry used them as cover and headed into the enemy's defenses. Infantry within the USSR were not admittedly important to the Red Army however, they were used a lot in offensive roles. The new theories were put to the test, as they began taking over neighboring weakly defended countries in Caucasus and the Balkans. The USSR believed in massed operations and highly mobile forces, whether they were mechanized or motorised it did not matter to them. Russia also has a history of conscription, even today Russia maintains the trend, it also has given way to a large history of hazing, which still exists in the Russian Army.Īfter the revolution of Russia in 1917, the USSR began experimenting with various military theories, in order to keep their dominance in Asia, Europe and Eurasia. Even before WWII, the USSR and Russia had a history of not depending on training for its regular infantry force, during its reign, both countries were feared not for the skill within their men, but the numerical superiority they had, and the industrial capability.
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