Why was Moscow empire so USELESS in World War One???

[Litwin]

Because they fought a 20th-century war with Napoleonic weapons and tactics. No matter how skilled or brave you are, you are fighting with both hands tied behind your back. History doesn't repeat but it does occasionally rhyme. Sort of like putin´s empire today...

Moscow horde´s war record :-1856 defeated by Britain and France1905 defeated by Japan1917 defeated by Germany1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states 1939 defeated by Finland1969 defeated by China1989 defeated by Afghanistan 1989 defeated in the Cold War. 1996 defeated by Chechnya 2022 defeated by UkraineWW2 won USA/Britain , meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :-a) Hungary 1956b) Czechoslovakia 1968c) Moldova 1992d) Georgia 2008

 

[whitehall]

The Czar preferred to stay out of the territorial squabbling in Europe. So did Princeton professor and US president Wilson who promised he would never send America's sons to fight in a foreign war until he did.

 

[Mushroom]

Because they fought a 20th-century war with Napoleonic weapons and tactics.

This is both true, and not true.

The fact is however, at the start of the war all of the nations were using such tactics. That is not unique to Russia, because the UK, France, Austria-Hungary, Germany, they were all doing the exact same thing. However, when all sides saw the effect of machine guns on those formations, all sides quickly dropped them and reverted to trench warfare.

But they were hardly using "Napoleonic weapons". Not even close.

To start with, their main service rifle was the Mosin-Nagant 1891. Which quite obviously adopted in 1891, almost 8 decades after the Napoleonic Wars.

They were also one of the first nations to use armored cars in combat. The "First Auto-Mobile Machine Gun Company" had been formed back in 1912, and used the domestically produced Russo-Balt Type C armored car. And the unit first saw combat in late 1914.

And absolutely nobody laughed at their artillery, that was an area that Russia always prided itself in being a world leader. Most notably their M1877 mortars that came in 8 inch, 9 inch, and 11 inch calibers. Their 42 line guns were also legendary for their reliability as well as speed of production. Japan and Finland would continue to use that gun until WWII.

You really do just love to make crap up, don't you?

 

[Mushroom]

So did Princeton professor and US president Wilson who promised he would never send America's sons to fight in a foreign war until he did.

Not that he had much of a choice, once it was revealed that Germany was trying to coax another nation into invading the US. That is an act of war in itself.

 

[Litwin]

This is both true, and not true.

The fact is however, at the start of the war all of the nations were using such tactics. That is not unique to Russia, because the UK, France, Austria-Hungary, Germany, they were all doing the exact same thing. However, when all sides saw the effect of machine guns on those formations, all sides quickly dropped them and reverted to trench warfare.

But they were hardly using "Napoleonic weapons". Not even close.

To start with, their main service rifle was the Mosin-Nagant 1891. Which quite obviously adopted in 1891, almost 8 decades after the Napoleonic Wars.

They were also one of the first nations to use armored cars in combat. The "First Auto-Mobile Machine Gun Company" had been formed back in 1912, and used the domestically produced Russo-Balt Type C armored car. And the unit first saw combat in late 1914.

And absolutely nobody laughed at their artillery, that was an area that Russia always prided itself in being a world leader. Most notably their M1877 mortars that came in 8 inch, 9 inch, and 11 inch calibers. Their 42 line guns were also legendary for their reliability as well as speed of production. Japan and Finland would continue to use that gun until WWII.

You really do just love to make crap up, don't you?

why Germans have beaten Muscovite barbaric hordes of pogromists so badly in ww2 ?

 

[whitehall]

Not that he had much of a choice, once it was revealed that Germany was trying to coax another nation into invading the US. That is an act of war in itself.

It was Imperialist Germany and not Nazi Germany in WW1 and surely they had no designs on the U.S. at the time.

 

[Bezukhov]

This guy was no help