When liberals repeat the lie of "the Red Army were a bunch of barbaric savages who raped their way across Eastern Europe" they implicitly justify the Nazi policy of conscripting children and disabled people into hopeless human wave attacks
That's it, that's the post
I don't think it was a "Red Army tactic(tm)" and more of an individual unit thing. The notion that the USSR used human waves as an official strategy is a Nazi lie
It's standard game theory: i.e. if you've got more pieces, trade material until you win.
Each commander, Red Army soldier and political commissar should understand that our means are not limitless. The territory of the Soviet state is not a desert, but people - workers, peasants, intelligentsia, our fathers, mothers, wives, brothers, children. The territory of the USSR which the enemy has captured and aims to capture is bread and other products for the army, metal and fuel for industry, factories, plants supplying the army with arms and ammunition, railroads.
Therefore it is necessary to eliminate talk that we have the capability endlessly to retreat, that we have a lot of territory, that our country is great and rich, that there is a large population, and that bread always will be abundant. Such talk is false and parasitic, it weakens us and benefits the enemy, if we do not stop retreating we will be without bread, without fuel, without metal, without raw material, without factories and plants, without railroads.
This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating.
Not one step back!
Order No. 227, 28 July 1942, Joseph Stalin
I recall reading it was post-war coping from the Nazi generals the US recruited to understand soviet doctrine. They couldn't conceive of having lost due to superior tactics etc because the slavic untermenschen is supposed to be incapable of thought, so it must have been sheer weight of numbers.