"War and Finance." The 1941 catastrophe. Reduction of food allowances for the Red Army 6

Here I will make a brief digression. The fact is that in the real world the dragons dragged and dragged Vanka-platoon, Vanka-company. "They will not send a farther front, more companies will not be given." "Vanka-platoon" as a stable common name of a Russian officer of a low-level army unit is traced from 1941. 

Perhaps, somehow I'll develop this topic in a separate post about the brutal trench truth, it's worth it. With reference to the topic of the present post, I confine myself to the following. In order to sweeten the life of Vanka-platoon, short and full of bitterness and injustice, Stalin invented and introduced an officer's ration on the front, which was issued weekly. It included cigarettes instead of soldier's makhorka, a couple of tins of canned meat and a bar of chocolate (soldiers received only sugar).