Wwii Russian
Posted on Thursday, May 7, 2009 in Model Tanks
Is it true that in WWII Russian paratroopers leapt to their deaths?
I've been hearing (in school and elsewhere), that in WWII, Russian paratroopers believed the snow was so soft that they didn't need parachutes and occasionally leapt to their deaths? And and all reference would also be appreciated, since it seems the only backup anyone can give me is "everyone knows this".
I've read a lot of the war and never heard of this as a general policy. If anything, some isolated incidents could possibly have created a story like this. The trouble with that is that an air assault on an area under snow that deep probably wouldn't have been carried out in the first place. If the snow was deep enough to cushion a fall, movement on the ground would have been almost impossible. The Soviets were among the earliest to experiment with deploying troops via parachute, so by WWII, they would have figured out that it didn't work very well without the chutes.
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