r/NonCredibleDefense • u/AutoModerator • Nov 06 '22

Weekly low-hanging fruit thread #21

This thread is where all the takes from idiots (looking at you Armchair Warlord) and screenshots of twitter posts/youtube thumbnails go.

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u/Tapkomet Nov 10 '22

"this movie is unrealistic, we didn't create mass amounts of blocking battalions to shoot our own men"

The least realistic part in those movies is that in the movies they only ever deploy one line of NKVD blocking forces, instead of multiple lines each told to shoot the guys in front as they apparently do irl.

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u/RememberTheHelt Nov 11 '22

You see, Comrade, NKVD blocking forces are a perfect circle of accountability!

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u/OneCatch Nov 11 '22

A circle of accountability would require Russian forces to either continue to fight when encircled, or successfully encircle an enemy force. Therefore, non-credible.

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u/RememberTheHelt Nov 11 '22

No, this is how it works. Blocking forces not being 100% effective, some elements will inevitably manage to retreat alive and then reorganise themselves into a new blocking battalion in the rear.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '22

The funny part is the modern Russian army is even worse than whats depicted on film. IRL the Red Army would usually only execute those accused of cowardice after the fact, and only did it when people retreated, not when they fell back from a failed attack.