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That suggests he had more balls than most of Russian leadership and was actually at least somewhat near the front.
They've actually lost a lot of their senior officer corps. The reason is that in the Russian military the enlisted ranks and junior officers have very little autonomy, so senior officers are obliged to be in much closer contact with the front than we would expect in NATO, for example.
You give to much credit. It could have easily been a mine burial training exercise and he walked into the field
How many bullet holes were in his back before he stepped on that mine?