Originally posted by lazs2
diablo.. if you are threatened with maybe being shot if you go forward and for sure being shot if you go backward it makes you brave.
machine guns at your back and aimed at you, manned by your fellows make you willing to go forward
lazs
While Diablo is wrong, this wasn't a very common tactic. Nor were human walls a staple of the russian army.
Because of german stupidity, the russians held them off, and then finally severely outflanked them and caught them in the open.