Educate me Holla Forums, why did the Russians under Stalin obey all his commands...

Why I never understood is why didn't they just shoot the commisars? It's not like the fuckers were walking around in sci-fi power armor, they were just a target easy to overpower by any trained soldier

With what?

With whatever they fucking had, and not even that, I just don't get how a pack of terrified men being forced to charge into walls of bullets couldn't just charge the commisar barehanded instead and kick him to death

Ever been in a room with a fuck huge retard that could be set off at the drop of a pin?
That's what living under Stalin would have been like.

Many probably did

secret police everywhere, loose talk could very easily get you v& and you would never be seen again

People, especially in villages were mixed in communes so to say, settlements housing many people in the same room, casually with strangers. There was virtually never (especially after it gained traction) confidence in your comrade, or any planning.

GPU was supposedly extremely feared. Just the other day, I have read the following remarks:

"The same Cheka officer says that one of his superiors, known as a massive drunkard said: "In Permo I have shot so many people, that they, if I am not drunk, gather around me begging me to spare their lives". -He follows: "In those days in Ekaterinburg basements and chekas were crowded with arrested people. Here there were officers, villagers and priests. Villagers were under accusation of hiding wheat. Every night a number of these "parasites" (as they called them) was "liquidated"… and "liquidation" (execution) was by shooting, was not individual but en masse. There are designated "commissars" for shooting, but officers themselves were performing executions for entertainment. After that "job", that often lasted entire night, Starcev and Ivanov (chief), would get dead drunk, and would not come to office for several days".''

So overall, you get the climate. I recommend checking documentary related.

NKVD purges after Cheka purges plus Comissars.

Add to that even so many russians defected to german side