Saturday March 04 2023 10:13, you wrote to Ward Dossche:
SM> This in itself is not surprising. I meant that for us the Minister of SM> Defense is in the first place - a warrior on a white horse ahead of SM> the troops.
Not in Russia! Such tradition has long been abandoned here, our current minister of defence was never in the military and prefers to spend time in Moscow in his luxurious house. Previous one was famous by his drunk orgies with his mistress and her female colleagues while traveling across our country. She was well known for screaming at military generals and by selling state's property at minimum price to shadow companies :)
Current minister of defence often called "plywood marshal", because plywood is too weak to build decent house.