In a scale of1 to 10, how professional was the red army during

>>1448772
There was definitely a lot of competent, professional soldiers in the Red Army, but a lot of them spent time in gulags before being reinstated, and they were outnumbered by le slavic liberators

Red army in 1941: 2/10
Red army in 1945: 9/10

>>1448816
Pretty much this. The Soviets were amazingly good learners.

>>1448782
>There was definitely a lot of competent, professional soldiers in the Red Army, but a lot of them spent time in gulags before being reinstated, and they were outnumbered by le slavic liberators

It's a meme. The quality of officer corps that Stalin killed off was also abysmal. They were Budyonny-tier.

The Great Purge wasn't the main reason for the horrible performance of the Red Army in the first months of the war. Rather, it was the explosive growth of the Soviet military during the years immediately preceding Barbarossa. They formed a massive number of units that were powerful on paper but in reality staffed by (yet) untrained men, commanded by (yet) underschooled officers and using (yet) untested equipment.

>>1448772
Redneck conscripts in 1941
Avatars of death and destruction in 1943-1945.

>>1448782
The units that were used for the rape of German women in Berlin were of Asiatic origin,they were intentionally chosen for that assignment in order to violate the Aryan ideal of the racial purity of the Germans.

It varies, the conscripts of '41 like >>1449134 mentioned had barely any training and were haphazardly thrown into combat and suffered staggering losses. By '45, the Red Army was the most effective and experienced army in the world in both offensive and defensive operations and was unmatched in terms of strategic/operational planning.

>>1449142
Indeed.

>>1449242
Although I should add that the quality could be still be pretty variable even by 44/45. There were some awful generals that caused the Finnish or Estonian fronts to be absolute shit for the Russians.

>>1449252
And I know of which generals you speak,or at least I think so.

>>1448860
There was also the total strategic surprise achieved by the Germans because Stalin's bizarre believe that his whole intelligence apparatus was lying to him and that Hitler was trustworthy.