Today, from time to time, we still look back at the tragic wars in history, in which the political structure of the entire world was shaken in the war and the fate of all the people in the world was also affected by the war. In the Soviet Union, the main power in World War II, the living conditions of the soldiers were also very difficult, and even if we look back at history today, we can't help but lament their painful experience.
As the saying goes, soldiers and horses do not move grain and grass first, but not every army and every soldier in every war has a sufficient supply of military food. Whether there is military food or not, it is necessary to talk about the logistics and infrastructure level of the rear of the country in addition to the battlefield front. Although soviet soldiers and Soviet troops in World War II looked mighty, in fact, in the later period, the Soviet army could not supply food at all.
To talk about the food conditions of the Soviet Red Army, we must first talk about why the infrastructure and logistics in the rear are so poor that the supply of military food is not available. First of all, we must start from the grain-producing bases of the Soviet Union, and the geographical conditions and conditions of the Soviet Union must also be known to everyone, and no matter how large the land in the north of the territory is, there is very little land that can produce grain. So where was the soviet grain base at that time? It was in Ukraine, which had long been occupied by Germany.
This act of the German army first cut off the food of the Soviet Red Army, which was equivalent to cutting off the lifeblood of the Soviet Red Army. But this is not to say that there will be no military food without the loss of the grain base, and the Soviet Union must try all methods to supply the military food, otherwise what battle will be fought? Nevertheless, the Soviet Union still tried its best to get military food for the army, but at that time the Soviet Union was still facing a serious problem, that is, the question of who would cultivate the cultivated land.
After all, war requires manpower, farming also requires manpower, and in order to strengthen the strength of the army, the Soviet Union has transferred all the young men in their prime to the front. In this way, the cultivated land in the rear is not only less efficient, but sometimes even the people in the rear have to starve.
So what was the soviet red army's military food at that time? Here we have to mention a kind of bread called "Heleba", although the practice of "Leba" has been continued to this day, and it is also one of the most important staple foods in Today's Russia, but in World War II, Heleba as a military food was not as fine as today's bread. This coarse texture and great yield of bread were just fine as military food, but at that time Black Lieba was extremely hard, difficult to swallow, and tasteless. At that time, the Soviet Red Army's military food was not only rough, but sometimes the quality could not catch up with the output, although it was extremely easy to produce bread, but there were also times when production could not keep up. So the upper echelons sometimes decided to add wood chips to this dry and hard bread to make the bread look more productive.
Therefore, the Soviet Red Army at that time could not even see oil and water, and these young and middle-aged people looked thin and skinny, and looked miserable. This miserable situation did not improve until the Red Army received assistance from the United States, and the soldiers could finally eat relatively high-quality military food.
If you want to know more interesting history, it is interesting to pay attention to that kind of history.