n0, you may have learned from a Trotskite idealistic haver, playing to the sorrow of the bloodily axed revolutionary. Trotsky innovated using bullets on his own army.
Just checked out wiki to make sure: Trotsky organized Soviet army in 1918, mobilizing 1 mln people, and installing political commissars to monitor commanders of every unit. EStablished death squads for his own army. In his own words ” Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death-penalty in its arsenal…the command will always be obliged to place the soldiers between the possible death in the front and the inevitable one in the rear. The following applied to small businessmen as many of Jews were: The bourgeoisie today is a falling class… We are forced to tear it off, to chop it away.
And this is just the first page of wiki.