Forgive me to interfere
Broncazonk but I don't understand on what purpose the topic was started ,
I am not clear if you are making a statement or asking questions .
Let me say that I spent two years trying to understand on why Stalin and
his loyalists started the purges of the Red Army. In fact the purges commenced way
before the Marshl.Tuhatschevsky affair, it started along with Spanish Civil war and
it continued way beyond 1941 .
Here is something I managed to collect throughout the years :
VVS
- 36 Kombrig Executed
- 33 Komdiv Executed
- 17 Komkor Executed
- 4 Komandarm " "
-Over 24'000 Captain, Majors , Lt Col and Colonels
All suspected to be Tuhatschevsky collaborators,Spanish Civil War plotters against
Stalin and Trotzkists
RKK- Executions
- 3 USSR Marshals
- 10 Komandarms
- 37 Komandarm second rank
- 69 Komkor
-110 Komdiv
- 6 Kombrig
- 4 Gen.Lt
- 15 Gen Maj
VMF- Exections
Over 20 Kapitan pervey ranga
Over 500- 1000 officers
NKVD
Several thousand including their two famous leaders, knowing he's
on the list ,Yejov's deputy fled to Japan and divulged highly classified
material to Japan Imperial Army then executed by Japanese near
WWII end .
In total over 138'000 or more officers from Captain to Generals were executed
and 150'000 more banned to various rehab camps. However I believe the
figures are substantially higher .
I red several books on that , though best of it Stalin the Red Tzar
If you need details I will be happy to help .
I am surprized that as we speak Putin never managed to issue a public appology
for all these atrocities . In addition not everybody was rehab during the
Hrustchov era and further .
I almost forgot to tell you, the myth that Stalin favoured Jews is pure
nonsense and WWII German propaganda crop, in fact he used the Jews
for his purpose then gave the order to execute them. 68% of Red Army
officers executed were Jews.