Yeah, you’re probably right. But the overall point remains. I’m also far from an expert on russia so I’d expect that those who are would have had more insight on those types of things than someone like myself.Sending their troops to the front with rations that expired in 2005, in trucks whose tires were made in the Soviet Union, and wearing body armor made of cardboard sewn into a plate carrier while armed with Mosins? Pretty sure you can't even claim to have expected that.
Or to see a Russian army hampered by the weather in winter.