#The great patriotic war hoi4 archive#

This document is in the Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Szczadence with information on the number of commanders released from the army between the beginning of 1937 and September 1938. On September 19, 1938, the head of the 6th Department of the United Kingdom (Management and Command Post) RKKA Colonel Shrajew provided the deputy of the People's Commissar of Defense, 1st Army Commissar J. Suworow / Rezun in Purification wrote about it, and although the book may be considered controversial, the documents he quoted were never questioned. At that time, the Red Army had about 200,000 officers, it is stated that during the purge about 40,000 officers left - some were released, some were arrested and some were shot. Of course, nobody said that directly, but people were dissatisfied with the way Stalin ruled and how he developed the country at the expense of people. Many people accused Stalin of abandoning the international revolution. In 1936, Trotsky published the book 'Betrayed Revolution - what is the USSR and where is it going?' which echoed quite loudly in the USSR. The idea of a civil war in the USSR is not just Stalinist propaganda. That's straight up Nazi-moon-base level of BS. Huh? How does that even make sense? If some of the officers were actually planning a revolt, then killing off the staff who were actually loyal to the USSR should make them MORE likely to revolt, not less! If Purging different people does not affect the probability of a civil war, but the amount of people you kill does, then that's basically implying that literally EVERYONE in the Communist party were planning to revolt, but you can get half of them to 'stay in line' by executing the other half. The only thing that matters is the amount of people you execute. What's especially dumb is that you can choose which people to Purge, but no matter what options you pick, as long as you kill enough people, the civil war won't kick off. But the idea that a large scale civil war will happen if you do not purge these people is quite literally Stalinist propaganda.

Okay so I understand why players need to have some sort of incentive to carry out 'the Great Purge' in the USSR, even though historically there were no benefits whatsoever to killing off experienced generals and military staff.

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