The other thing they did during the war was if you failed to take your objective, lost your weapon, or did something else wrong, the Russians would put you in a penal battalion, they were then marched in line (with any dissenters failing to carry out the task shot from the rear) across the likes of minefields, if you were wounded it was deemed you had served the Motherland and were released from the penal battalion, if you survived you would carry on in the role.
That's the mentality you are up against, even now they have troops behind the frontline tasked with shooting deserters or sending them back to the front.
https://stalingrad.net/russian-hq/th...spenalbat.html