Soviet Rifle Infantry!
We begin to explore the conflict in the East, and provide you with the figures you need to re-fight epic battles from Stalingrad to Kursk, to Budapest and Berlin.
The really titanic struggle in World War II – and one little noticed in the West – was the fighting between Germany and Soviet Russia on the Eastern Front.
These Soviet infantry, like the German Panzergrenadiers before them, were designed and sculpted by our new Russian sculptor, Dmitry Maltsev.
This first release consists of three sets, which you can combine as you like to produce rifle squads, platoons, and companies from the 1942-43 period.
The first set consists of eight unique Soviet riflemen:
The second set are squad-level command and machineguns:
The third set contains infantry officers, commissars, radiomen, and a combat medic, suitable for platoon or company command:
Each set consists of eight figures. For more information, visit the Askari website.
Information on the Eastern Front
There are more and more resources becoming available. One source is wartime memoirs of ordinary soldiers. German sources, written in the 1950s and 60s, have been translated into English. With the opening of Soviet wartime archives, more resources are becoming available from that side, too. Casemate Publishers has a long list of books, in both print and electronic versions.
On Military Matters has a wide selection of books and magazines as well.
