Comment on Air War 1941 June by Claveworks
At the beginning the Soviet Air Force was caught unprepared. 
That worries me greatly... y' do realize that if they were slightly more unprepared, bye bye 100 million Russians?
worries me greatly... y' do realize that if they were slightly more unprepared, bye bye 100 million Russians?Yes indeed. 
Any person or group under Stalin was liable to be imprisoned, exiled, or executed for no reason.
It was a bad time to be in the VVS (Soviet Air Force) as the purges of the 1930s had left them poorly-led and chaotic.
The Nazi advance destroyed 1,489 aircraft on the ground in a single day...
IT sure was.