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| The great patriotic war was one of the bloodiest conflicts in the history of the world, costing all participants hundreds of thousands to millions of casualties. Despite the popular depictions from old propaganda, the brunt of the fighting wasn't massive tank formations sweeping majestically across the Russian steppes, but the poor, freezing infantryman manning defensive positions, assaulting across no mans land, or dying in droves in urban combat. Russian riflemen in Flames of War are cheap and poorly trained, but come in some of the largest units in the game. Alternatively one can bring hero rifle units, fielding the much smarter and more survivable remnants of veteran soviet rifle units.
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| ==Mid War==
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| ===Regulars===
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| ==Late War==
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| ==In Real Life==
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| [[image:Mosin_Nagant_189130.jpeg|thumb|300px|right|The dreaded Moist Nugget, slayer of Fascists]]
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| The average soviet soldier in the Great Patrioic War was armed with a Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle. A time tested design that had been in service for half a century at that point through world war and revolution with a few tweeks. It was a bare bones five-shot gun, but was cheap to make, simple to service, robust and reliable and could put a 7.62×54mmR round through a nazi at ranges up to 800 meters. The Soviets had attempted to replace it with the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle earlier in the 1940s but reliability issues and cost eventually had it withdrawn from service.
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| The Red Army took heavy casualties in the early days of Barbarosa, large sections of the Red Army were overwhelmed and defeated in details. Large numbers of POWs were captured and [[Grimdark|subject to forced labor, starvation, casual brutality and cullings]]. That said, from 1943 onwards the exchange rate between Red Army and German forces eventually evened out as the Nazis lost the initiative.
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| {{Soviet Forces in Flames of War}}
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