SOL027a-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in bubble wrap.
Paint chipping on rifle as circled.
Del Prado SOL027 Infantry Soldier, Stalingrad, USSR 1943
Soldiers of the 20th Century Series
The Tsarist Army entered the First World War unprepared and poorly equipped. Sufficient munitions and supplies were never produced for the 15,500,000 men mobilised during the war. On 8 March 1917 there began in Petrograd a series of mass civil demonstrations, sparked off by a shortage of bread, protesting against the war, the government and the police. The Tsar abdicated and most of the old Imperial army deserted or disbanded. A heady spirit of liberalism was in the air. A deep rift had already been driven between officers and men and, had it not been for the Bolshevik November Revolution and the Civil War which followed, it is probable that the old Russian Army would have entirely disappeared. It was owing to Trotsky that the remnants were salvaged and the process of disintegration and demoralization reversed. The new revolutionary Red Army owed its foundations to the Imperial Army.