That's the tragically hilarious part: the popular image of commissars shooting their own men that is very prevalent in western media actually came from Soviet commissars executing SA offenders on the spot in Germany during the final stages of the war.
Tragic because they turned an unambiguous act of heroism and righteousness into popular image of brutality, hilarious because it's another example of how horrifically fucked up the west is and how they kept getting away with it :agony-deep:
That's the tragically hilarious part: the popular image of commissars shooting their own men that is very prevalent in western media actually came from Soviet commissars executing SA offenders on the spot in Germany during the final stages of the war.
Tragic because they turned an unambiguous act of heroism and righteousness into popular image of brutality, hilarious because it's another example of how horrifically fucked up the west is and how they kept getting away with it :agony-deep: