It's nothing to do with putin. It's just greedy sociopaths are prepared to exploit the state the world finds itself in. They've always done it and always will it's just the modern world is unique in that almost the entire population of the western world is the target of the exploitation this time around and the world will almost certainly never recover from the environmental damage that will continue to be done and accelerated while people are too busy fighting over DEI and trans rights.
The culture wars are a distraction to the great heist.
Destroy the economy, collapse any remaining faith in democracy, sell the nation to the highest bidder.
It's going to be the biggest and most destructive form of disaster capitalism we've ever seen, mainly because they are the very people who are engineering the disaster in the first place.
That is factually incorrect. Apart from conscripted civilian brigades and penal batallions, Soviet soldiers didn't suffer from a lack of small arms or ammunition. What they lacked was fire support in the form of artillery pieces, tanks and aeroplanes.
The accurate parts of this scene are the lack of direction from officers and the NKVD blocking divisions. Other than that, this scene and this movie is laughable from a historical perspective.
Depends what you're looking for, don't play FO3 if you want a great main story, if you're going in for the exploration and side quests, it's a lot of fun with some great things to find.
Fallout 3 is a post apocalyptic adventure game. New Vegas is a post post apocalyptic role playing game. I enjoyed the hell out of them both but largely for different reasons.
Plus, like, you know, it's a TV drama and not real life.