"Georgy Zhukov’s Close Call With Stalin’s Killers" Topic
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Tango01  | 16 Jun 2018 9:50 p.m. PST |
"Beginning in 1936, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin set about deliberately murdering 700,000 people in the Great Purge, an act of mass killing that "constituted a form of rule" unto itself, as Stalin biographer Stephen Kotkin explained. The armed forces were not spared. The purges swept through the officer corps, including 154 division commanders — of 186 in total — and resulted in the NKVD executions of several of the country's most innovative and senior military thinkers, including Mikhail Tukhachevsky who was forced into signing a confession under torture before his murder. Thousands of officers were executed. Georgy Zhukov, then a cavalry commander, escaped the purges and went on to become one of the most senior Soviet military leaders, a war hero and one of the most well-known and respected generals in modern history — implementing the theory of "deep operations" on the Eastern Front which Tukhachevsky had pioneered on the drawing board…."
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| Old Wolfman | 19 Jun 2018 7:38 a.m. PST |
Rokkosovsky somehow got off w/some gulag time and was brought back in(with steel dentures,as his original set of choppers were knocked out by Yezhov's or Beria's NKVD crew)when Stalin needed him and his skills. |
| Tango01 | 19 Jun 2018 11:52 a.m. PST |
You are right my friend. Amicalement
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