The Winter War (Soviet Union against Finland) provides a useful insight. The Russians were incompetent on the offensive, they should have crushed the Finns easily.
However when the Finns took to attacking they found that individual Russian soldiers died very, very hard - the conditions they would endure and continue fighting through were astonishing.
The same spirit can be seen time and time again in other circumstances, for instance the Blitz attitudes of civilians during WW2, or Shock and Awe later on.
People endure when they are being attacked. They may not be inspired to attack back, but in terms of not giving up the human spirit can be incredible.
The Soviet army during the Winter War was very, very different from its 1945 version, both in terms of organization/training/experience and equipment. Winter War was somewhat of a wake-up call in fact.
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The Winter War (Soviet Union against Finland) provides a useful insight. The Russians were incompetent on the offensive, they should have crushed the Finns easily. However when the Finns took to attacking they found that individual Russian soldiers died very, very hard - the conditions they would endure and continue fighting through were astonishing.
The same spirit can be seen time and time again in other circumstances, for instance the Blitz attitudes of civilians during WW2, or Shock and Awe later on.
People endure when they are being attacked. They may not be inspired to attack back, but in terms of not giving up the human spirit can be incredible.
The Soviet army during the Winter War was very, very different from its 1945 version, both in terms of organization/training/experience and equipment. Winter War was somewhat of a wake-up call in fact.