This is how the CCCP fights, no holding back for any reasons whatsoever. Go in, do the job, clean up the terrorists and do it all over again. Scorched Earth policy works.
Ovomit’s plans are all wrapped up in red tape, I mean red lines...
You described Russia, not the old USSR.
The Soviets would come in and try to convert the people to their religion of socialism. Not to say they weren’t bloody, but there goal was conversion.
The Russians didn’t try that. They just would fight the other side till they stopped. Didn’t work all the time.