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Originally Posted by ikalugin
Oberon, Soviets too believed that they would be greeted as liberators. And did some work to that end (building infrastructure, providing free education and so on). But sometimes people do not wish to get the progressive ways of living.
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People just love living in free fire zone and having their village blown to bits as well. The Soviets often did just that. Not to say that every Soviet solider was a bad or evil person after all they're just the cannon fodder.
The USSR encountered many of the same problems that thee US did in Vietnam though the two wars have many differences and should be considered parallels. A very interesting book on the subject is Bear Went Over the Mountain which is a further analyses of a Soviet staff study written in 1990. Another book(can't recall the name) published in the US but written by a Russian VDV combat engineer who fought vairfies much of the Western analysis of the Soviet staff study which dose to an extent admit failures but in many cases completely ignores glaring facts.