It's generations and generations of hierarchical control, and nothing else. Men who did anything other than advance towards the enemy as ordered were shot, in WW1, in WW2, even again today. That scene in Stalingrad with the NKVD, completely factual. Look up the WW2 battle of Izium which is just one example. They're fighting there again today.
No, it doesn't make sense by western standards. But this is as much as anything a clash of network topologies - hierarchy vs mesh. Our tolerance for constant debates and internecine arguing doesn't make any sense to them either, if that's any consolation. They think we´re stupid to tolerate it, when it's so much easier and simpler for everybody to just follow the vision of the one true leader. To their death.
No, it doesn't make sense by western standards. But this is as much as anything a clash of network topologies - hierarchy vs mesh. Our tolerance for constant debates and internecine arguing doesn't make any sense to them either, if that's any consolation. They think we´re stupid to tolerate it, when it's so much easier and simpler for everybody to just follow the vision of the one true leader. To their death.