Matvei Bronstein: Theorical physicist. Pioneer of quantum gravity. Arrested, accused of fictional “terroristic” activity and shot in 1938
Lev Shubnikov: Experimental physicist. Accused on false charges. Executed
Adrian Piotrovsky: Russian dramaturge. Accused on false charges of treason. Executed.
Nikolai Bukharin: Leader of the Communist revolution. Member of the Politburo. Falsely accused of treason. Executed.
General Alexander Egorov: Marshal of the Soviet Union. Commander of the Red Army Southern Front. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Arrested, accused on false charges, executed.
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky Supreme Marshal of the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the Red Napoleon. Arrested, accused on fake charges. Executed.
Grigory Zinoviev: Chairman of the Communist International Movement. Member of the Soviet Politburo. Accused of treason and executed.
Even the secret police themselves were not safe:
Genrikh Yagoda : Right-hand of Joseph Stalin. Head of the NKD Secret Police. He spied on everyone in Russia and jailed thousands of innocents. Yagoda was arrested and executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda
Nikolai Yezhov : Appointed head of the NKD Secret Police after the death of Yagoda. Arrested on fake charges, executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov
Everybody was absolutely terrified during this period. At least 600 000 people were killed and over one million people were deported to Gulags in Siberia.
False. The war with Finland happened in 1939 and the lend-lease program didn’t begin until 1941. There wasn’t even a supply route connecting the USSR to the other allies until the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also in 1941 (which was one of the main reasons for the invasion).
True for the illegal Soviet aggression, but false for the Continuation War from June 1941 to Sep 1944. Assisting a communist country over a democratic one is disgusting. I would have let the Nazis and Bolsheviks murder each other until they were both severely weakened.
Well then, thank God you weren’t the one in power back then, or we would’ve lost the war. Hopefully, no one like you ever gets near the levers of power.
The Nazis and “Bolsheviks” did fight each other and become severely weakened because of it. 27 million Soviets gave their lives in the heroic struggle to save the world from the Nazis.
Btw:
When the Soviets attacked Finland, the Suomi pleaded for help from the UK and USA before turning to Germany. You gave them no choice.
What is wrong with watching the sick Bolsheviks and Nazis kill each other off from the sidelines? The world is better off without them.
The heroic Soviet struggle, which brutality occupied eastern Europe. Only an insane person would want to be influenced and occupied by the sick Russians again, which you support.
I suppose you also want the British to die, right? They invaded Iran, a neutral country, supported the Soviets in the Continuation War, and they inflicted multiple devastating famines on India, not to mention Ireland. Why don’t we just kill everybody, then?