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* [[We Have Reserves]] - More or less Red Army policy for most of his time in power. During the [[Great Patriotic War]] the Soviets took absolutely ''punishing'' casualties, the most terrible in military history, but unlike the Western Allies they had no electorate to appease and unlike the Germans they could afford the losses, so the willingness to accept massive casualties continued. Stalin even had a few suitably villainous quotes [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] this policy.
** Do bear in mind that Red Army operational art was very different to that of the Western Allies. The Red Army could be and certainly was sloppy and brutal with regards to casualties, but it is a vast [[Flanderisation]] to accuse it of simply drowning its opponents in blood.
***Despite being written by German generals who [[Unreliable Narrator|needed to suck up to the Western Allies]] to keep from being hanged as war criminals, [[Fighting in Hell]] offers an illuminating picture of the Red Army which was notable for ingenious and innovative manipulation of the potential of it's untamed terrain features, rather then virtuoso displays of mechanical [[Dance Battler|dance battling.]]
** "The violent death of a large number of people was necessary before the Communist state could be established"
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] - Not with his own father, but with Lenin and Karl Marx. Some historians allege Stalin frequently wondered what Marx and Lenin would think of him and his efforts to live up to their legacy.
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