Aye, I forgot that. They took a scorched earth approach. Man, that was like one of the biggest talking points about that way back in school.
Aye, I forgot that. They took a scorched earth approach. Man, that was like one of the biggest talking points about that way back in school.
"a German railway pioneer battahon could replace wide-gauge line with normal at 20 km per day. " from an actual real article discussing this. Also there are mentions of how the soviets often destroyed infrastructure when retreating which slowed down efforts like this, so it certainly was a contributing factor.