Seanus: Stalin's main strength was that he preserved the Red Army to the point that they were always likely to stave off any threat from the Nazis and then catch them when vulnerable.
Really?
The mainstream history has it the other way around!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army#Purges
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The late 1930s saw the so-called Purges of the Red Army Cadres, which occurred concurrently with Stalin's Great Purge of Soviet society. In 1936 and 1937, at the orders of Stalin, thousands of Red Army officers were dismissed from their commands...
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The result was that the Red Army officer corps in 1941 had many inexperienced senior officers. While 60% of regimental commanders had two years or more of command experience in June 1941, and almost 80% of rifle division commanders, only 20% of corps commanders, and 5% or fewer army and military district commanders, had the same level of experience....[79]
http://russian-ukrainian-belarus-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_ death_of_marshal_tukhachevskii
The Death of Marshal Tukhachevskii
Stalin’s Purges Cost One of the 1930s’ Best Military Minds
It is said it was a german plot from the Abwehr to "leak out" "evidence" abou spies in the army which made Stalin run amok....
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