Military commissars keep running the Russian war machine. But how long can they handle this?
On one side of the table sits the powerful military commissar Farud Musayev in the city of Derbent in Dagestan.
On the other side were two old couples. They had just been told that their son had been killed in a “special operation” in Ukraine.
After the funeral, the military commissar gave medals to the parents.
New day, two new funerals. Both fathers received medals and money for their dead son. The military commissar gave the same speech again: Their children fought against the Nazis.
As a commissioner, he shouldn’t just bury the old man who died and comfort him. He also had to recruit new ones. How are Putin’s commissioners?
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He is a small but important part of Putin’s power apparatus.
Farud Musayev in the city of Derbent in the Republic of Dagestan is a man you should watch out for.
He’s the military commissar. This means that he can confirm that, within days, you are in the trenches in Ukraine.
There are several reasons why military commissars played a key role in keeping the war going.
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