Wow, I knew soviets actually applied improvised armor to their tanks to protect against fausts, I didn't realize they made their own mesh armor too. Apparently, wooden boards attached to the sides and spaced from the armor was just as effective.
As for Soviet paratroopers, sadly them parachuting in wouldn't be as appropriate since they were mainly used as infantry, they only had a few combat drops.
SO? the same could apply to paratroopers in coh1...
No I think they should have paradrops. Soviet paratroopers (and in rare cases marines) were used in small numbers to drop right behind enemy lines. these were not always like the large scale ops in western europe. They DID paratroop small units behind the lines