Yet the sniper and Maxim builds work wonders. Combined with an m5 Quad rush and you can pretty much turtle anyone to death. Don't know what makes you believe that Soviets aren't what every statistic, most of the replays and player opinions suggest they are.
Could it be your own mind that twists things?
You are completely missing the point.
Relic said soviets use menpower(numbers, do not confuse with menpower resource) to overcome quality(upgrades).
Its not true, while soviet armies are often bigger, it still doesn't make them equal to stock units of other factions, this is why elite infantry is used extensively.
And I've already said its not so bad on the armor side while T34 is still tad too menpower(and pop cap) heavy.
Again, like I already stated and what you seem to have ignored in my first post, I agree that non doctrinal soviets lack much and their doctrinal stuff is mostly more potent. But you just can't deny the fact that maxim spam combined with at guns and m5 quad rush can dominate games fairly easy.
Now please drop the bias and be realistic here.
And where did I denied anything again?
I've said it myself that its go combined arms or go home and the claimed by relic menpower(again numbers, not resource) advantage is a myth since you can't get more units if these units perform worse and cost as much or more then axis counterparts.