If Russians are meant to be the imperium, then how come they don’t live in the ruins of a formerly advanced (but still utterly horrible to live in) empire that possessed technology that is impossible to replicate in the modern day?
Not to mention, the average guardsman was born and raised in a crushing grimdark civilization with no hope of escape, barely scraping by only to die 15 hours after deploying with the guard. And they’re nothing like Orks, who don’t have the slightest clue how technology works and only cobble shit together out of random scrap or get themselves blown up while messing with things they don’t understand.