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The Fate of Eight Soviet Generals: Stalin’s Great Purge of Tukhachevsky and Red Army Command
Eight Soviet generals, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, were arrested and executed during Stalin’s Great Purge in one of the most devastating political purges in military history. In June 1937, the Soviet Union carried out one of the most destructive purges in military history. Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky — once celebrated as the Red Army’s brightest strategist and a pioneer of modern mechanized warfare — was suddenly arrested, tortured, and accused of leading a Trotskyist “military conspiracy” against Stalin. Within weeks, seven of the Soviet Union’s most experienced commanders were…
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