You seem to be choosing one “criminal” over another, which seems a tad of a double-standard…
But he , beeing “innocent” absolutly voluntary “unmasked” his friends- Yakir,Feldman, Uborevich and ets.
He wasn’t “unmasked,” he was slandered by the NKVD on orders from Stalin…
Married, eh?
Are you ever gonna make an honest girl of her?
Trockij was responsible for Big Red terror in 1918-1921.About 2 mln were murdered.That’s more then enough to wiped him out from earth.
Trotsky was no more “responsible” than any other Bolshevik, and Stalin was far more of a direct terrorist, even during the Civil War. The only real responsibility Trotsky bares was building the Red Army into an effective fighting force more so than any other singular individual. Yes, a lot of people died, but that happens during revolutions and wars. The Whites also committed atrocities.
What would ever make Trotsky worse than Generalissimo Stalin? Why the distinction? Why is Stalin blameless for the debacle of the Soviet defeats in the opening of Barbarossa in your eyes?
A false wiki article , based on post-war Tuhachevski’s apologists works.I specially asked you - have you read the real work of Tuhachevskij?No, coz NO his any theoretical work DOES exist in nature.
It’s not a “false article.” You just don’t like it. There’s a difference…
And Tukhachevsky was one of four or five main strategists than formulated Deep Battle and his work found its way into several field manuals used by the Red Army until the Purge–one’s called “Deep Battle”. So, they didn’t exist?..
It does not wonder me, coz you have read ONLY Trockists works- the field that is absolutly dominates in USA nowadays.
I m not going to didsmiss their false propogandic ideas- kinda Idiot Budenny and “genious” Tuhachevskij. This is too obvious falsification.
I admit that Trotsky is a bit more admired here than perhaps he deserves to be. This is based on the perception that he was very successful and combined a powerful intellect with actual leadership and organizational ability. Something rare in most historical figures. I do agree he was a bit of an idealist, but he was also far more democratic minded than Stalin and criticized the over use of state terror and was abhorred by the notion of genocide, often criticizing even left wing movements that sought to murder or ethnically cleanse based on race or culture…
False.
Stalin was more realistic from most beginning- yet in 1920 he seriously objected to CK( central commite of party in head with Trockij and Lenin) to move the Red Army through the Poland to Berlin.It was Trockij who advocated that mad idea. They inspired- the Polish worker would support the Red Army becouse of solidarity class straggle.Stalin argued- the Poles are nationalist and their nationalistic feeleng will make them to resist to Red Army invasion.
The history has proved Stalin was right, Trockij was out to be the idealistic maniac, red army has been crushed coz his obsessed will to bring the revolution to Germany.
They were not simply “moving through” Poland and were capitalizing on their initial successes against the Poles. A Polish general inflicted a most unlikely defeat on the Russians that no one expected and Poland was on the verge of collapse IIRC. Trotsky certainly wanted to move to the German border to assist the German communists in their post-WWI workers rebellions. I’m no fan of a communist Germany, but had Trotsky completed this and turned Germany into a workers state, there certainly would have been no catastrophic “Barbarossa” and millions of dead Soviet citizens.
One can also argue that power would have grounded and forced Trotsky to become more pragmatic and no one can state “what Marshal Trotsky would have done.” Because we cannot know…
And Stalin was “realistic” alright. So realistic that he dealt with Hitler and beleived that Hitler was not going to attack him despite receiving reams of intelligence data from spies, reconnaissance, and his own commanders in Poland…
Oh sure , say yet that german T-III/IV directly contributed to development of Tiger;)
The all of Tuhachevskij wearpon that were ordered by Ary in 1931-1937 were OBSOLET and hopeless.Just in 1939-1941 the new generation of soviet wearponry were proved to be more or less effective.
You’re comparing tanks designed in the early 1930s/late 20s to German panzers that were designed in the late 1930s. Blaming Tukhachevsky for the failure of Soviet preparedness for WWII based on BT series of tanks is historically asinine, even irresponsible. The BT’s were better than anything in their day and you are essentially criticizing the design because it was obsolete by WWII. Well, no shit! A lot of things were. That doesn’t mean they weren’t good weapons systems that evolved into something else. In this case, the BT series directly led to the T-34!