Lists of World War II military equipment Puns

Now I know that the "asiatic russian hordes" trope is a lie based on German propaganda but I have nothing to replace it with.

1. I assume that the successful conflicts with Japan/Poland (1939) and the disastrous Winter War (1940) had an impact on infantry doctrine when the war started in 1941.

2. I assume that the quality of the troops was high antebellum and that the enormous defeats of the Soviet military early on had more to do with grand strategy failures.

3. I assume that the quality of the soldiers fell to its lowest point in 1942 when the Soviet Union was at its lowest point.

4. I assume that there is a quality difference between the normal infantry divisions and the elite guard divisions. That the Red Army is largely conscripted army with a volunteer professional core.

Are my assumptions correct? And how did the quality of the troops change over the course of the war?

Modern Military Shooters, which currently over saturate the market, will likely go the way of the World War II shooters earlier this generation, people will become dreadfully bored of them, and devs will move on to something new...

Where would you like genre go next? Any interesting settings you want to visit? New gameplay mechanics? Maybe there was stuff you would like to see more of that was touched on only a bit last generation?

Personally, I would like to see more open world shooters, like Far Cry 3, or STALKER, I also wouldn't mind seeing more arcadey, retro style shooters, like Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, Call of Juarez Gunslinger, Shadow Warrior, and Rise of the Triad, more Doom-like games. As for setting, I'm content with sci-fi, since there's lots of creative freedom to be had with it, it could be totally unrealistic with laser swords and space magic, like Star Wars, or Warhammer 40k, or a bit more realistic, like Halo (probably not the best example, but I mean in the sense that a lot of elements found in it seem realistically feasible, such as SOME of the guns and other technology).

So what do you think, /r/games?

The Soviet Union was a one-party dictatorship and so in the 1930s it purged the military up until after World War II, but my question is how did it ensure that its military remained loyal?

Especially during World War II right after the purge where Soviet Officers would have seen their comrades executed or imprisoned. While things got better after World II, wouldn't any ill will continued onward? How come no disgruntled Soviet officers launched a coup or maybe an ambitious officer seeking to become the next dictator.

The Carley float employed by the Western Allied navies during the Second World War is fairly well-known, and in discussions with friends I realized that none of us were particularly familiar with lifesaving equipment issued in other navies of the period.

I'm curious if comparable rafts were in service with either the Soviet or any of the Axis navies? If not, what kinds of survival equipment did they rely on when the time came to abandon ship?

I'm studying AP World History flashcards on Brainscape and one specifically says:

>After the Berlin Airlift, the de facto division between the Soviet-controlled and Western-controlled areas of Germany became official.
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>The Soviet sector became the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the western portion became the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). Armed checkpoints prevented people from leaving East Germany.

I only assume the people manning the armed checkpoints weren't Russian. I assume many of these soldiers were in the Nazi military previously and popular understanding is they followed orders, but why were they so cooperative with/loyal to with the Russian Communists, specifically moreso than people from their own country wanting to leave?

Hypothesis: At least 3,000 people, not just Chinese but also Russians, Mongolians and Koreans, died from the experiments performed by Unit 731 between 1939 and 1945.

The goal of these experiments was to develop chemical and biological weapons, in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol. At least 100,000 more were killed by deployments of biological weapons.

Players/Incentives:
Main players:

• Surgeon General Shirō Ishii, in charge of the unit.
• General Otozō Yamada, the commander-in-chief of the million-man Kwantung Army occupying Manchuria
• Emperor Hirohito

The goal was to develop biological weapons to win the Sino-Japanese war, and likely WW II more broadly.

Estimated likelihood: >99% in general. Estimating death tolls in wartime is difficult, so exact casualty figures from biological warfare deployments vary wildly.

Third party evidence/Arguments:

Unit731.org has some graphic photographs of prisoners being tortured in the name of experimentation. Doctors referred to prisoners as “Maruta”, or wooden logs. The majority of victims were Chinese POWs:

>Unit 731 participants of Japan attest that most of the victims they experimented on were Chinese[22] while a small percentage were Soviet, Mongolian, Korean, and other Allied POWs.[45] Almost 70% of the victims who died in the Pingfang camp were Chinese, including both civilian and military.[46] Close to 30% of the victims were Soviet.[47] Some others were Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders, at the time colonies of the Empire of Japan, and a small number of Allied prisoners of war.[48]

These experiments culminated in the deployment of biological weapons across China:

>Japanese researchers performed tests on prisoners with bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism, and other diseases.[36] This research led to the development of the defoliation bacilli bomb and the flea bomb used to spread bubonic plague.[37]

> Infected food supplies and clothing were dropped by airplane into areas of China not occupied by Japanese forces. In addition, poisoned food and candies were given to unsuspecting victims, and the results examined.

> In 2002, Changde, China, site of the flea spraying attack, held an "International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare" which estimated that at least 580,000 people died as a result of the attack.[38] The historian Sheldon Harris claims that 200,000 died.

*Aftermath