Cavalrymen

From the second half of the 1980s, about this branch of the Red Army’s troops could be heard only bad things: “Soviet leadership overestimated the role of cavalry,” “cavalrymen in command positions of the Red Army didn’t allow modern branches of troops to develop and mechanization to be carried out,” “with sabres on tanks.” But how true are these claims?

Did the command of the Red Army really overestimate the role of cavalry? Did the Red horsemen throw themselves into suicidal cavalry charges against tanks? What was the tactics of Soviet cavalry during the Great Patriotic War? For what achievements did seven out of eight cavalry corps of the Red Army become Guards units?

Heroes of the new book of the “I Remember” project (http://iremeber.ru) answer these and many other questions—cavalry veterans.