My History teacher once told me that the Soviets (during world war two) had so many men but so few guns that many had to run into battle unarmed and pick up dead men's weapons, how true is this?

by _DeanRiding
vontysk

This question come up all the time. u/Searocksandtrees gave a good summary of some of the responses in this post.

It's definitely not "pretty spot on".