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Also this Erenburg quote was looking weird to me, so I decided to look for the original article. It actually doesn't have anything like...

Stalin indeed wielded an absurd amount of power personally. He just used this power not to control what other people do. He used that...

Does it come from Tito after Yugoslav-Soviet split? I very much doubt that Stalin would have said something like that. It is just stupid...

Stalin did exactly that. There is no indication that Stalin ever wanted 'to exact revenge' or somehow encouraged such behaviors or gave...

"Jet fuel cannot melt steel beams".

Tukhachevsky wasn't popular either in the army nor among the wider populace. It is Stalin who actually was popular and it is the reason...

You misunderstood my point. Moral qualms were real. People didn't like the after-effects of chemical weapon usage and considered it...

It wouldn't. WW2-era poison agents suck as area denial weapons because they dissipate very quickly and simply not persistent enough...

If you expend the same amount of delivery platforms and ordinance tonnage on conventional explosives the result would be better than if...

To clarify the issue somewhat: I do not claim that dual command system was in any way beneficial. What I'm saying that Soviet command...

Pre-Purge generals for the most part were of the same breed (so to speak) as the post-Purge ones. As I said previously, Purges were...

When this idea will die in fire at last? Germany fought for FOUR freaking years without any deliveries of oil or any other materials...

It is again something of a centerpiece of mythology about Red Army. Soviet commanders had plenty of local initiative and freedom and...

Basically, the answer is simple. Purges were entirely incidental to the outcome of Barbarossa. They barely affected it because the...

Trotsky primary issue was his personality and approach to relationships. He basically aggravated the entirety of higher echelon of the...