I read something along the lines of “the civilian casualties of the Battle of Stalingrad is partially an example of the faults of Soviet centralized planning, as the state was not able to provide food, transport, housing, etc. in the time and numbers required.” I am wondering what the response to this claim would be?
I find it funny that an entire city under siege by a reaving genocidal army is somehow turned into a failure of communism.
state was not able to provide food, transport, housing, etc
Huh, I wonder what happened west of Moscow in the early 1940s that would make the state unable to provide for its people? I guess we’ll never know…
what the response to this claim would be
simple shock at the suggestion.
how are logistics handled in every modern army? centrally. how is rationing managed for civilians in wartime? centrally. there was very little difference in the organizational principles of the USSR and the capitalist powers during WW2 except at the production level (who owns & manages the farms and factories).
therefore, deficiencies are not organizational, but from the inputs—which they could possibly claim central planning hindered, it’s easy to procure production figures that expose that as a joke—and the obvious answer to soviet deficiencies was the loss of territory and material from the fighting
I would respond with pretty much anything @[email protected] says
Dynasty Warriors but it’s the Eastern Front and you play as Stalin
“What… Mao’s land reform?… we’re talking about Stalingrad”
