Not to mention, the men of Stalin's time were more hardcore. There is no world where the modern Russian man is not hopelessly weak-minded, unmotivated, used to flavored vodka and Starbucks and on top of that zero existential threat to Russia creates no urgency besides being killed by their own commanders for not running into live fire. This sort of treatment of your own soldiers ALWAYS gets them to turn around and see their REAL enemy, the threat to their lives is smugly comfortable in the Kremlin. It didn't work out for Czar Nickolas and it won't work out for razPutin.