Originally posted by Ossie
That's great. Now that we've cleared up the semantics, what exactly happened to roughly half of his "commanders" in the late `30's?
Half? I read the book Stalingrad, direct quote:
"Altogether, 36,671 officers were executed, imprisoned or dismissed, and out of the
706 officers of the rank of brigade commander and above, only 303 remained untouched. Cases against arrested officers were usually grotesque inventions".
Seriously i recommend everyone to read this book, as its packed with astonishing details about the commanders personal feelings, soldiers and especially Stalins unmatched paranoia. (hundreds of quotes from love letters and personal diaries) Hes NO DOUBT the most cruel and insane leader of 1900 century. He slaved his patriotic (still to this day) and humble people with insane cruelty. He is directly responsible of 10-20 million deaths of his own people, who blindly served him like god. Lots of historically important archives have "top secret" stamp on them, prolly to the bitter end, as theres currently ex-KGB agent leading the nation.
Boroda is simply Stalinist and he will propably refuse everything that is not written by Stalin himself. I remember statistics, that 50% of the russians think that Stalin made more good to its country than bad. If only the dead ones could speak.