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reminds me of COD 1 starting the soviet campaign. all the "soldiers" are kids yoinked from their family farms and loaded onto trains to go fight. your starting loadout is like 5 bullets and no gun. and there's soviet guys whose job it is to shoot you if you move backward instead of forward
For the record, that "sent into battle with no gun" narrative is long-disproven. The Soviets had plenty of guns to give their troops, and blocking detachments generally arrested retreating troops (with the hope of sending them back into the fight) rather than shooting at them.
Hmmmm? Ballsy work arresting fleeing soldiers with the enemy so close.