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Reply To: Poland 1939 – Preparing for 80th Anniversary of World War II

August 16, 2019 at 4:35 pm #1427069

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Thanks for your reply @yavasa. I have seen the full length version of the mock battle by the German propaganda machine, but I have not seen anything the Russian propaganda machine produced. In the German one you seen the smoke coming out of the tank Mgs firing blanks and yet directly in front of it there are guys standing up in the saddle straining to see where the camera is and is not in the slightest worrying about the blazing tank coming at him.

Let’s face it the first rule of warfare is that you only attack if you can be the schoolyard bully. How can horses bully tanks? I know that when most people think of cavalry in Ww2 they think of them as Napoleonic cavalry. If using Napoleonic terms WW2 cavalry are more properly Dragoons. But I know what you are saying, a number of my family were Australian Light Horsemen and even then the horses were meant to be transport even though they are credited as delivering the last and greatest cavalry charges, however I think the historians are totally ignoring the Russian Cossacks of WW2. Here again they were meant to use their horses for movement.

Looking forward to see more from you and @oriskany on this topic. I like the early war period. I have an early war German army and play against British forces. I have hoped that someone in our group decides to build a Polish force.