Barbed wire

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Barbed Wire
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Barbed wire was a cheap, simple anti-infantry barrier used by Soviet forces during the Great World War II. It was generally ineffective at impeding the progress of anything larger than light vehicles.

Barbed wire, was a length of steel wire with razor-sharp barbs protruding at intervals throughout it. Infantry crossing through a barbed wire fence would likely risk severe injuries, and light vehicles would certainly have their tires cut open. While it would be possible for an infantryman to slowly and carefully negotiate his way through the wire, or cut the strands of wire to pass, in the heat of battle this would endanger their lives. Therefore, infantrymen and light vehicles usually avoided barbed wire. However, infantry armed with explosives found that, luckily, their weapons could clear a path through the barricade, and heavier vehicles could simply crush it under their tracks.

After the war, difficulty with handling the wires, and the general ineffectiveness of the barriers, led to the abandonment of barbed wire as a military barricade, though civilian farmers would use it as an inexpensive way to keep their livestock in check.