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He joined at age fifteen and made lieutenant at seventeen?
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He enlisted as a captain at eighteen and was promoted to lieutenant two years later?

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I didn't know how one could edit an article to make it worse. But now I do.
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The numbers certainly don't crunch particularly well.

If I may make a suggestion, Kamin; if this guy is the embodiment of the Russian winter and is if not immortal then at least super-preserved by the fact, it might make more sense to have him be 'frozen' into this state not as a young man but as an already aged soldier, a veteran of World War One and the Revolution. I don't know if it's likely that a soldier could survive in Stalin's army for that long, in fact it's probably terrifyingly unlikely, but then what better candidate for the very avatar of Russia's defiance than someone who has defended the Motherland against all threats for so many years?
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speaker-to-trolls wrote:If I may make a suggestion, Kamin; if this guy is the embodiment of the Russian winter and is if not immortal then at least super-preserved by the fact, it might make more sense to have him be 'frozen' into this state not as a young man but as an already aged soldier, a veteran of World War One and the Revolution. I don't know if it's likely that a soldier could survive in Stalin's army for that long, in fact it's probably terrifyingly unlikely, but then what better candidate for the very avatar of Russia's defiance than someone who has defended the Motherland against all threats for so many years?
Exactly. In fact, that very thought led me to create Makar Igorov, cynical warlock and Tsarist veteran, as one of the senior members of the Winter Corps for my story. For a special corps of special ability people, there should at least be a core of experienced veterans to form a solid core around which the rest of the organization is built. Superpowerful young people are nice, but they'd be inexperienced. Inexperienced leadership is often poor leadership save for the rare few who learn enough, fast enough to become competent. But that's not good enough for a special force of specially powerful supersoldier--you need someone who can reign them in, so he has to already have the cold, hard experience of being an effective leader under his belt.

As for surviving in Stalin's Army, well, Stalin while known for being execution-happy was known to keep a few people alive in the gulag if he thought they could be potentially useful fr something later. Some Soviet military leaders during WW2 were put in the gulag before the outbreak of the war, and released when it was thought they could be useful and that they'd fight the Germans because they can't abide by foreign invasion as much as the next guy. That's one of the background details for my own Makar character--he was kept alive because he was an old, experienced magician of great ability who could be potentially useful. Stalin let him serve in the Winter Corps during the Great Patriotic War, albeit under a leash, because his abilities could be useful and because Stalin knows Makar is too enamoured with Russia (his idea of the proper, Tsarist Russian Empire, of course) to go over to the Germans and will fight to keep them out even if he might despise the Soviet Union.
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speaker-to-trolls wrote:The numbers certainly don't crunch particularly well.

If I may make a suggestion, Kamin; if this guy is the embodiment of the Russian winter and is if not immortal then at least super-preserved by the fact, it might make more sense to have him be 'frozen' into this state not as a young man but as an already aged soldier, a veteran of World War One and the Revolution. I don't know if it's likely that a soldier could survive in Stalin's army for that long, in fact it's probably terrifyingly unlikely, but then what better candidate for the very avatar of Russia's defiance than someone who has defended the Motherland against all threats for so many years?
That's a cool idea, I'll revise it with that idea in mind.
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