"The Russians also launched a great many attacks in WWII, massed attacks with infantry, that were essentially kamikaze-like in nature. At Stalingrad, for example, human wave attacks were launched by Russian troops into the face of German machine guns, and half those Russians didn't even have a gun! They were instructed to pick up a gun off a dead man when the opportunity presented itself. They died like flies.

What did they do it for? "

A good many did it because they didn't want to get shot in the back on Stalin's orders...