Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-25 months agoAmericans will still cope and seethe but it was a space race buddy not a moon race and the USSR sent several people there before you did.hexbear.netimagemessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1184arrow-down1imageAmericans will still cope and seethe but it was a space race buddy not a moon race and the USSR sent several people there before you did.hexbear.netDirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-25 months agomessage-square76fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoWord. And the 2 men 1 rifle thing, afaik, is bs too. The supply situation was very, very bad in Stalingrad, but never so bad that they didn’t have enough Mosins for everyone.
minus-squareDes [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoso i’m guessing it was more like “rifle for everyone but here’s like a few magazines you’ll have to scavenge what you can”? which was absolutely a situation the western allies encountered as well especially the airborne units
Word. And the 2 men 1 rifle thing, afaik, is bs too. The supply situation was very, very bad in Stalingrad, but never so bad that they didn’t have enough Mosins for everyone.
so i’m guessing it was more like “rifle for everyone but here’s like a few magazines you’ll have to scavenge what you can”?
which was absolutely a situation the western allies encountered as well especially the airborne units