Soviet GPW helmet?

[Dolf]

To my opinion much more Ssh-40 helmets have been issued during the war. When you look at Soviet POW pictures from the beginning of the war, you can notice that most of the soldiers captured only wear the pilotka. Which tend to confirm that the Russian where badly equipped at beginning of the Blitzkrieg. One last comment is to say that not all the Soviet soldiers did wear a helmet during the war comparing to the German army.

Soviet,

I remember a debate about that long ago with other people interested on WWII History, and one of the things I remember one guy saying was that Soviet soldiers were normally equiped with helmets but many still preferred not to use them for a few reasons, among them their heavy weight which made them quite painful to wear. I don't know, does it make any sense?

Just my two cents...

Dolf