>this is a war of whole russian people >60% army is non-russian

Did the central asian mongoloids raise a stink about being cannon fodder and such? You figure they would.

He needed something to boost the morale of population and since the communist ideology wasn't very entrenched among the masses he used some good ol' Russian patriotism. Military orders named after Imperial Russian generals like Suvorov or Kutuzov were issued, which was bizzare considering we're talking about the USSR.

Stalin was a very practical man. Though maybe not officially, Russians in the USSR were still a dominating ethnic group in all spheres of public life. He as a Georgian knew this well.

>>2822292
Which speech did he say that in

>>2822292
>60% army is non-russian
Gimme a breakdown please, that seems wrong.

>>2822373
>>2822292
The army was 64% Russian in membership during the war. For how many participated in combat, you may want to compare their casualty counts. Here's a tally; it's only by republic, so e.g. some ethnic Russians will be marked as Ukranians and ethnic Jews and Tatars marked as Russians, but overall it's a good approximation. As a percentage of total Soviet 10.6 million military deaths:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union

>Russians: 66.4%
>Ukranians: 15.8%
>Belarusians: 2.9%
>Tatars: 2.2%
>Jews: 1.6%
>Kazakhs: 1.5%
>Uzbeks: 1.4%
>Armenians: 1%
>Georgians: 0.9%
>Other/Unidentified: 6.3%

>>2822414
>Here's a tally; it's only by republic, so e.g. some ethnic Russians will be marked as Ukranians and ethnic Jews and Tatars marked as Russians, but overall it's a good approximation.

Forgot to cut this. It's not true. Those numbers are by ethnicity. Just to be clear.

>>2822414
Maybe he meant Russian as a nationality and not ethnicity. Isn't he Georgian himself?

>>2822292
Ukraine is not russia.

and Stalin was Georgian

>>2822457
>Russian as a nationality and not ethnicity
Ethnicity and nationality are two words describing the same thing, dumbfuck.

>>2822457
He wouldn't be using the same word for those. Which is why I'm interested in >>2822357

>>2824059
>/his/

>>2822292
>American army uses appeals to patriotism
>not all of them are WASPs
>UK uses appeals to patriotism
>uses colonial soldiers
It's the same thing.

>>2822292
Your logic is shit.
>a room that has my family and the neighbor family in it
>"my whole family is in this room"
>"no, your family is only 60% of the people in the room!!"
Made it clearer?

>>2824059
Being this stupid.

>>2824059
Wow lad

>>2822414
If we make a little approximation:

n(East Slavs)=(Russians)

We are left with 85.1% which would make answer OP's question

>>2822414
>ukrainian

>>>/x/

>>2824335
No, not really