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Even Napoleon's weapons were vastly superior to the Russian ones at the time... oh, wait :)
by throw_pm23 2y ago
Even Napoleon's weapons were vastly superior to the Russian ones at the time... oh, wait :)
- dan-robertson 2y agoI don’t think the napoleonic wars are a very good comparison as they happened 100 years before the Russian revolution. You do see some parallels to later wars – the Russians being technologically inferior, or getting Poland after a war, for example. If you look at overall deaths, the French side suffered half as many as their opposition, and more Russians died than people from any other country opposing Napoleon. This still ended up being much less extreme than in WWII where I guess the one sentence summary is that, in Europe, most belligerents were spending enormous amounts of money on weapons and technology whereas the Soviet Union suffered enormous military and civilian casualties to achieve victory.
- LarsDu88 2y agoYou need to look at the casualty figures from the actual battles, not the attrition figures from Napoleon's march back to French allied territory. Russian soldiers under Russian (very often not ethnic russian) generals suffered staggering losses. But the Russian Empire in 19th century is not the Soviet empire in the 20th century. This topic is about Soviet math and engineering, not 19th century Russia