The Historical Record and Its Impact on WritingThread

[DavidGil]

@Cataphrak

Not necessarily. The Soviets espoused gender equality as a policy - or at least gave lip service to it. A lot of women received military training before the war and were effectively called up as reserves by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

In retrospect, the mobilisation of women was one of the major factors bringing about Allied victory. Nazi Germany’s failure to mobilise women en-masse for war industry work and auxiliary roles (blinkered as they were by the misogyny of Nazi ideology) helped exacerbate the administrative and logistical inefficiency and incompetence which already hamstrung their tactically and operationally proficient armed forces.

Well, I honestly didn’t know that. I believe you. I always thought Soviet women would have been fighting out of sheer necessity. Shows that I have a lot of research to do really.

I think I’ve heard about the Nazi incompetence as the war wore on. I don’t know if you’re aware of it, Cataphrak, but while I’ve not played it, there’s a game called Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa, where you have to try and please all of the different commanders who want certain things.

Anyway, I’ll stop posting here for now and if another thread’s been created, I’ll take the discussion there.