You gain a bunch of extra manpower but they take away the ability to retreat. Sounds interesting, but I doubt they would ever release something like that. If you get suppressed by a machine gun you are fucked, and just have to sit there and die unless you can force off all enemy troops in the area. Unless maybe the officer has something like the On ME ability....
no end game -check
no potent late game call-ins -check
no weapon upgrades -check
gimmicky -check
potentially cheezy -check
huge potential to punish the user more then anything -check
Well, to me it seems like it got everything needed to become soviet commander.