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[Outlaw Josey Wales]

IMO, the Russians just weren't tactical thinkers like the Western allies or Germans. The one exception was Stalingrad in the city itself. Everything else I have ever read were some companies, but mostly whole bns tasked to do something that the Western armies were doing with Companies and Platoons and sometimes Squads. For them, it seemed like a numbers game. That is the way it has always come across to me.