[Restorer]

And what about the purge of the officer corps by Stalin BEFORE WWII!?

See post #40.

[VOA]

See post #40.

Thanks...didn't catch that with my fast scan of the thread.

Maybe 10 years ago, I saw a documentary on PBS (from the U.K.) that said something
to the effect that the Soviet Military had more "casualties" from the
peacetime purge than any single army had suffered during wartime.

Whether that's 100% true, it's a sure deal that Stalin piled up the bodies whether
a war was going or not.