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> Hitler said that Stalin would never be able to stop Nazi if he still had his "tzar generals" I think the general consensus among historians is in total oppos
by sampo 13y ago
> Hitler said that Stalin would never be able to stop Nazi if he still had his "tzar generals"
I think the general consensus among historians is in total opposition to what you write. The the old generals were more competent than the new young communists that replaced them.
- vetinari 13y agoThere were two camps in Russia before WW2 - Trotskyist and Stalinist. As a leader of one camp, he needed to get rid of the other camp, if he wanted to live. People like Zhukov turned out to be quite competent.
- selimthegrim 13y agoYou're really going to justify shooting Tukhachevskiy?
- vetinari 13y agoI'm not doing any justification, value judgement or taking sides, just stating facts. There were two factions fighting for power, one of them lost, people loyal to it were removed. It didn't happen neither for first time, nor for last time in human history.
- democracy 13y agoWhy not? He was a mass murderer and he did support germans and probably was draining info to them. It was an open hearing with local and foreign journalists, what are your doubts?