"Bloody Stalin": repression in the Red Army and marshals-exposers

Every day is approaching the next anniversary of the Great Victory. Alas, this day is not holy and bright for everyone, even in our country. Surely, as it has been more than once, there will be those who try not only to cast a shadow on one of the greatest achievements of our people, but also abundantly pour mud on the leaders who headed the country during the Great Patriotic War. Talk will again begin that it was won “contrary to Stalin and the Communists”, “exorbitant price” and, in general, it is still unknown whether it’s good that it was won ...





Well, no matter how many are those who will try to poison people's minds and souls with such a vile lie, we need to find the strength in ourselves to withstand it.

Is it possible to believe the marshals?

One of the favorite "black myths" of our liberals, all-pervasive and tenacious, like a kitchen cockroach, is the following thesis:



Moreover, the possessed Führer of the Third Reich decided to attack our country almost exclusively because "the military leadership was cut out by order of Stalin." I looked, you see, foe, on the lists of the Red Army command staff densely redrawn with a red pencil - and on the run let's get the Barbarossa plan out! Bullshit, God forgive me ...

However, among the commentators of my recent Articles (by the way, devoted to purely economic issues of the life of the Stalinist USSR), the most ardent adherents of this crazy theory were discovered. In their support, they even quoted a quote from Marshal Vasilevsky himself - they say that one of the best commanders of the Great Patriotic War later lamented that the war in the forty-first year “might not have happened without the thirty-seventh year”. The commander suddenly imagined that in Hitler’s decision to launch the invasion "an important role was played by the assessment of the degree of defeat of military personnel" that occurred in the Soviet Union. Yes, such words go on the Internet. True, the source of the citation invariably indicates the 9th issue of the journal "Communist" from 1988, that is, the source is more than dubious. Firstly, the aforementioned printed one, sorry for the expression, the “organ” in the mentioned year should already be renamed into “Anti-Communist”. Secondly, Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky died in 1977. That is, at the time of publication, it was completely harmless to ascribe any words ...

Personally, I am much more convinced by the words from the book of Vasilevsky himself, “The Case of All Life,” in which the marshal speaks of Stalin with exceptional respect, repeatedly emphasizing that such was the “most powerful and colorful figure” of the Soviet military command. In his own memoirs, the marshal clearly indicated that the Victory is the "undoubted personal merit" of the Supreme. If you take into account that the book was published after the Twentieth Congress, such assessments were a courageous act ... However, when talking about the "Stalinist crimes against the Red Army" the gentlemen from the liberal camp, who want to introduce themselves as experts in military history, will certainly add a couple more marshal’s quotes “by topic. " For example, from Andrei Eremenko, who allegedly claimed that Joseph Vissarionovich was “significantly guilty of exterminating military personnel,” and this, of course, “had an effect on the combat readiness of the army.” Or - from Georgy Zhukov, who sang with might and main in his "Memoirs and Reflections" about "unjustified arrests" in 1937, during which "prominent military men" were repressed. Next - again about the damage to "combat effectiveness and the development of the Armed Forces."

I want to say - both of the sources mentioned above, with all the great gratitude to them, as commanders of the Great Patriotic War, personally cause extremely negative feelings for me as participants in the Khrushchev party and military coup that destroyed the USSR and the heinous bacchanalia of the blackening of Stalin, which was subsequently unleashed. Eremenko personally ran to Nikita Sergeevich, offering himself as a speaker at the XX Congress. It is clear on what issues ... For which, by the way, he was granted a Marshall star. Everyone knows about the role of Zhukov. By the way, both of these leaders could not endure each other organically. Eremenko was the only commander whom Zhukov spat on in his memoirs, describing him as a swaggering fool who “did not use love in the army”! The same, in turn, bonfired the “Marshal of Victory” to all the crusts, exposing him as a “usurper and rude”, “a terrible and near-sighted man” Both are good! And there is no faith for them ...

In my opinion, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky can be considered the standard in this matter. That's who really had the full right to judge the pre-war repression - having passed the basements of the NKVD, where he lost all his teeth, subsequently, the camp. So, when jackals from Khrushchev’s pack rolled up to Rokossovsky, annoyingly offering to print a dirty mud over the Supreme, he sent them in a truly marshal's way. Very far. According to one version, Konstantin Konstantinovich snapped: “Stalin for me is a saint!”

Personnel of the Red Army - beating, reduction or purification?

It would be fundamentally wrong to deny the repressions that took place in the ranks of the Red Army (though, far from being only in it alone!) During the period 1937-1939. It was, of course ... However, to observe without horror and indignation how the number of repressed people grew - first in the writings of the "perestroika" publicists and "historians", and then in the mouths of their followers from the camp of modern "democrats" and "human rights activists ", Decidedly impossible! If Dmitry Volkogonov still had some conscience and, speaking of 40 thousand “commanders” who were given away during these years, he specified that in view of this there were not only “innocent people who had sat down,” but also simply dismissed from the army, then it started ! Moreover, in all serious ways ... The “perestroika” who had crashed from high stands was already shouting about 70 thousand, who were “innocent killed”, Geller and Rappoport raised their stakes to 100 thousand, and Kirchner was moaning about “destroying more than 50 before the war % of the officer corps. " Nothing that there was not a single officer in the Red Army until 1943 - only the red commanders ?! Although they would learn the terminology, bullshit ...

True, it is worth taking all these issues seriously - with numbers and facts in hand, as everything immediately turns upside down. From head to toe, naturally. A striking moment - if in the “terrible” 1937 and 1938 the shortage of command staff in the Red Army was 34 and 39 thousand, respectively, then in 1940 and 1941, when, as even the most stubborn anti-Stalinists are forced to admit, there was no mention of any repression equaled 60 and 66 thousand people! What kind of mysticism ?! And there was no mysticism - there was the development of the army, which Stalin, who had "slept through the war" and "did not prepare" for it, conducted an unprecedented, accelerated pace. It was the deployment of more and more new units and formations of the Red Army, commanders for which there was definitely not enough. Here it is necessary to mention one more specific and extremely important aspect - in the Red Army there was a clear overabundance of senior and average command personnel - in the complete absence of a practically qualified junior. There were neither corporals, nor sergeants, that is, those who were non-commissioned officers in the Imperial Army of Russia. Even the ensigns were not. But those whom we call officers today are abundant.

Let us recall one more thing. Speaking of "general purges in the army", our dear liberals lump everyone in one heap - from those dismissed from service due to their age, illness to those expelled from it for unrestrained drunkenness, or those who fell on bunks for banal theft of state property. They have all these people - crystal clear "victims political repression ". Well, it's complete nonsense! The data on the activities of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR and the military tribunals, which, in fact, passed the corresponding sentences, are perfectly preserved. So: specifically “for counter-revolutionary crimes” they were convicted in 1937 - a little more than 4 thousand people, in 1938 - more than 3 thousand, and in 1939 - just over a thousand. Accordingly, 1938 people were sentenced to death in 52, and 1939 in 112. I could not find data for 1937, but by analogy with other years, it is easy to calculate the possible numbers. At the same time, I want to clarify - these figures apply to all categories of military personnel, including privates! Where are the "tens of thousands destroyed"?

There is other data, according to which during the mentioned period about 37 thousand people of the command staff were dismissed from the ranks of the Red Army. But again, bad luck - only 9 and a half thousand people were arrested from them. Moreover, after the work carried out by the commission of the personnel Glavk of the People’s Commissariat of Defense of the USSR, more than 12 thousand laid-offs returned, of which more than 10 thousand were expelled from the army specifically for political reasons. Fifteen hundred people were released from custody. Such "mass repressions" are obtained.

A conspiracy that ... could not have been!

I foresee a heated objection and reproach: “But what about the“ army head ”that was destroyed in 1937, marshals and commanders, brigades and commanders ?!” Next - the usual tramp about the "military geniuses" Tukhachevsky, Blucher, Uborevich and others like them. And, of course, about the "mercilessly cut out by the Stalin heroes of the Civil", about the "shot commanders who passed Spain." Tired of it already! Are you, in all seriousness, trying to assert that all of this public would play a positive role for our army in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War ?! Oh, they would have fought ... Tukhachevsky, who was shamefully beaten by the Poles in 1920, who climbed to Warsaw without reserves, secured communications and flanking ... Blucher, who spread a complete mess in the Far East entrusted to him, which naturally ended in unreasonably large losses of the Red Army in battles near Lake Hassan, after which, in fact, Blucher took up seriously ... "Strategists" were still there!

All these “commanders” who participated in the First World War, at best, in the junior officer ranks, and in the Civil worked at the level of field commanders, in the Great Patriotic War would be not only useless - harmful! Participants in the fighting in Spain, too, in no way could get there experience that would be useful in 1941. The phrase that the generals are always preparing for the last war has long been winged, and corresponds exactly 100% to reality. What was the use of the “first marshals” in the Great Patriotic War, the “participation” in it of Voroshilov and Budyonny, who were not allowed to get close to the active army, testifies to after Clement Efremovich “marked” himself near Leningrad. But these were still the best!

By the way, there is one more thing. As long as the Soviet program for the creation of jet weapons was under the leadership of Tukhachevsky and his people, there was nothing practical in it. As soon as there was no “genius”, nor his team, and Voroshilov got down to business - the Red Army received the famous Katyusha. In turn, Uborevich, as soon as he could, slowed down the production and adoption of submachine guns in the Red Army, stubbornly repeating that it was a "purely police weapon", leading, in addition to the excessive cost of ammunition. There are a great many such examples. In fact, the real rearmament and development of the Soviet Armed Forces began only after all this gang-watering can be removed from the highest echelons of the People’s Commissariat of Defense. And this, inevitably, leads to very bad suspicions ...

Our democratic community traditionally reacts to any talk about the reality of a military conspiracy in the Red Army, revealed in 1937, as a notorious incense line. It could not be! Because it could never have been ... Launched with a hard hand of Khrushchev, this idiotic formulation for decades outweighed both the heap of evidence for the existence of this very conspiracy (including that received in the 30s from foreign intelligence), as well as elementary common sense. It turns out simply enchanting: the operation "Valkyrie", during which the lamp-bearers from the Wehrmacht tried to reset the Fuhrer and his entourage - this, of course, is reality. And in the Red Army, nothing like this could exist in principle! Even as it could. It was not for nothing that Tukhachevsky gave very lengthy and detailed confession statements in this regard just the day after the arrest, and without any beating in the “gloomy basements of the Lubyanka”. Presumably, they pinned the Marshal to the wall with evidence already gathered. It happens...

The conspiracy of the military, and tightly soldered both with the Trotskyist underground and with colleagues from the Third Reich, actually existed! Moreover, the tragedy of June 22, 1941 was due not to “mass repressions in the Red Army”, but to the fact that all the threads of this conspiracy were not unraveled, and the participants were neutralized! The further I delve into this topic - the more evidence. I thoroughly promise to publish a thorough and reasoned study on it a little later - on the anniversary of the tragic date.

In conclusion, I want to give one quote - from the one written in 1937 regarding the processes of the “military case”: “The show trial in Russia continues. Madness reigns there, Stalin is mentally ill! It is otherwise impossible to explain his bloody regime ... ”This is all from the personal diary of the Reich Minister of Nazi Germany Joseph Goebbels. You have a good company, gentlemen, “anti-Stalinists”! Worthy of you completely and completely ...