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Why did the Soviet military maintain the Officer/Enlisted class binary rather than instituting some other hierarchichal structure? How did they ideologically justify maintaining two distinct and separate classes, one privileged over the other, in an army putatively fighting for a classless society?

by /u/bigmapblog in /r/AskHistorians

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