Martin Antonenko
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Stalin Beheads The Red Army!
On June 12, 1937, the Soviet Deputy Minister of Defense and Marshal of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and his closest associates were executed by firing squad in the courtyard of the Lubyanka prison...
... at Moscow.
The execution was led by Marshal Wassilij Blücher...:
... The commander of the peloton was General Ivan Serov, who later became the KGB chief!
With the liquidation of his deeply hated adversary, Jossif Stalin begins a mass murder of Red Army officers that is unparalleled to this day.
There is no evidence, instead there are "confessions" that are extracted from the accused by torture during detention - here's Tukhachevsky's...:
The convicts were shot dead on the night of June 12, immediately after their trial.
This is the last known photo of Tukhachevsky - it was taken on June 11th or 12th during the - secret - trial...:
The “justification for the verdict” – “sabotage and treason” – was fictitious.
It was only in 1956 that Tukhachevsky was fully rehabilitated...:
Mikhail Tukhachevsky, born in 1893 as the child of an impoverished country nobleman and a simple peasant woman, took part as an officer - highly decorated - in the First World War in a traditional regiment of the Tsar...
...was captured, returned to Soviet Russia, which was threatened with death by uprisings and foreign troops after Lenin's October overthrow.
An early member of the Communist Party, he put himself in the service of the Soviet power as a military man throughout his life, even when it came to fighting distressed peasants and disappointed workers...:
Among other things, Tukhachevsky's name is associated with the bloody suppression of the Kronstadt uprising...:
In the war against Pilsudski's Poland in 1921 Tukhachevsky suffered a heavy defeat near Warsaw - the Poles call it "the miracle on the Vistula" - because the field commander Yossif Stalin refused an order!
After a harsh complaint from Tukhachevsky, Lenin withdrew Stalin's military command. That meant the end of Stalin's military career, who never forgave Tukhachevsky for that!
Tukhachevsky later modernized the Red Army, warned of a German threat after Hitler came to power after he had worked unconventionally with the Reichswehr. Tukhachevsky was respected abroad, he was recognized in the army, cultivated, good-looking, and even popular among the population.
Stalin was not only jealous, he feared Tukhachevsky as the only one who had the power to overthrow him.
Stalin didn't like that at all! And then there was the humiliation from the Polish war...
There is much speculation about the extent to which the Gestapo, under the leadership of Reinhard Heydrich...
... forged documents (and leaked to the NKVD) contributed to Tukhachevsky's fall. These documents about Tukhachevsky's plot, which have not survived, were rather unimportant...
Stalin didn't need "documents" if he wanted to destroy someone; and sooner or later he would have gotten rid of Tukhachevsky anyway.
Marshal Wassilij Blücher later, on November 9, 1938, was himself a victim of the “purges”, and he too was shot as a “spy”.
During the torture to force his "confession" the NKVD henchmen tore out an eye...
Three out of five Marshals of the Soviet Union do not survive the "purges"...:
Only Kliment Voroshilov remains...
...a completely incompetent (but loyal to Stalin) man who played for the Soviet dictator the same role that Field Marshal Keitel ("Lakeitel") played for Hitler, as well as Semyon Budyonny...
...a cavalry leader from the Civil War who repeatedly said of himself that he wasn't particularly intelligent!
When Marshal Blucher noticed that Stalin's purges were beginning to turn against himself, he worriedly spoke to his colleague Budjonny, who replied:
"Don't worry Wassya, they only take the smart ones..."
Then Budjonny was wrong!
In addition, Stalin will eliminate thirteen out of fifteen army commanders, 57 out of 85 corps commanders, almost all commanders of divisions and brigades, about half of all regiment commanders and 75 out of 80 members of the Supreme Military Council, and a total of about 70,000 other officers.
When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, there was almost nobody in the Soviet Union who could lead large formations. The Red Army had been practically beheaded...
On June 12, 1937, the Soviet Deputy Minister of Defense and Marshal of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and his closest associates were executed by firing squad in the courtyard of the Lubyanka prison...
... at Moscow.

The execution was led by Marshal Wassilij Blücher...:

... The commander of the peloton was General Ivan Serov, who later became the KGB chief!

With the liquidation of his deeply hated adversary, Jossif Stalin begins a mass murder of Red Army officers that is unparalleled to this day.
There is no evidence, instead there are "confessions" that are extracted from the accused by torture during detention - here's Tukhachevsky's...:

The convicts were shot dead on the night of June 12, immediately after their trial.
This is the last known photo of Tukhachevsky - it was taken on June 11th or 12th during the - secret - trial...:

The “justification for the verdict” – “sabotage and treason” – was fictitious.
It was only in 1956 that Tukhachevsky was fully rehabilitated...:

Mikhail Tukhachevsky, born in 1893 as the child of an impoverished country nobleman and a simple peasant woman, took part as an officer - highly decorated - in the First World War in a traditional regiment of the Tsar...

...was captured, returned to Soviet Russia, which was threatened with death by uprisings and foreign troops after Lenin's October overthrow.
An early member of the Communist Party, he put himself in the service of the Soviet power as a military man throughout his life, even when it came to fighting distressed peasants and disappointed workers...:

Among other things, Tukhachevsky's name is associated with the bloody suppression of the Kronstadt uprising...:
In the war against Pilsudski's Poland in 1921 Tukhachevsky suffered a heavy defeat near Warsaw - the Poles call it "the miracle on the Vistula" - because the field commander Yossif Stalin refused an order!

After a harsh complaint from Tukhachevsky, Lenin withdrew Stalin's military command. That meant the end of Stalin's military career, who never forgave Tukhachevsky for that!
Tukhachevsky later modernized the Red Army, warned of a German threat after Hitler came to power after he had worked unconventionally with the Reichswehr. Tukhachevsky was respected abroad, he was recognized in the army, cultivated, good-looking, and even popular among the population.
Stalin was not only jealous, he feared Tukhachevsky as the only one who had the power to overthrow him.
Stalin didn't like that at all! And then there was the humiliation from the Polish war...
There is much speculation about the extent to which the Gestapo, under the leadership of Reinhard Heydrich...

... forged documents (and leaked to the NKVD) contributed to Tukhachevsky's fall. These documents about Tukhachevsky's plot, which have not survived, were rather unimportant...
Stalin didn't need "documents" if he wanted to destroy someone; and sooner or later he would have gotten rid of Tukhachevsky anyway.
Marshal Wassilij Blücher later, on November 9, 1938, was himself a victim of the “purges”, and he too was shot as a “spy”.
During the torture to force his "confession" the NKVD henchmen tore out an eye...
Three out of five Marshals of the Soviet Union do not survive the "purges"...:

Only Kliment Voroshilov remains...

...a completely incompetent (but loyal to Stalin) man who played for the Soviet dictator the same role that Field Marshal Keitel ("Lakeitel") played for Hitler, as well as Semyon Budyonny...

...a cavalry leader from the Civil War who repeatedly said of himself that he wasn't particularly intelligent!
When Marshal Blucher noticed that Stalin's purges were beginning to turn against himself, he worriedly spoke to his colleague Budjonny, who replied:

"Don't worry Wassya, they only take the smart ones..."
Then Budjonny was wrong!
In addition, Stalin will eliminate thirteen out of fifteen army commanders, 57 out of 85 corps commanders, almost all commanders of divisions and brigades, about half of all regiment commanders and 75 out of 80 members of the Supreme Military Council, and a total of about 70,000 other officers.
When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, there was almost nobody in the Soviet Union who could lead large formations. The Red Army had been practically beheaded...