tzar

Hitler said that Stalin would never be able to stop Nazi if he still had his "tzar generals" - nickname for those military highranks executed in 37. 2.

Assign someone as your CFO. They're the cash-flow tzar. Anytime someone wants to spend, they have to go through that guy. The tzar should also have a talent of finding new pockets of money even when it seems that you're about to run out.

For example, capitalists or the tzar's family were not part of Inteligentsia. A lof of the military officers weren't either.

Instead, the author wants to make an end-run around to entire system: bypass the legislative system and the popular vote, and appeal directly to the executive, almost as if the executive were tzar. That's why the letter sounds desperate.

But they are pretty strictly controlled by the "power vertical", up to the quasi-tzar who is Putin. This structure does not tolerate breaking its internal rules, not keeping promises, etc, and is quick to unseat a bureaucrat which failed to conform, no matter how high in the hierarchy.

> Hitler said that Stalin would never be able to stop Nazi if he still had his "tzar generals" I think the general consensus among historians is in total opposition to what you write. The the old generals were more competent than the new young communists that replaced them.