Lumifer comments on Why officers vs. enlisted? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 31 October 2013 12:51:48AM *  1 point [-]

Do you have a reference on that?

Nope, and I am too lazy to go search, but it would be consistent with the early Soviet emphasis on egalitarianism and their need to construct an army almost from scratch.