Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General leronim Petrovich Uborevich, removed two days earlier as Red Army commander in the district of White Russia...
Marshal Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky, until his demotion last month Vice Commissar for Defense, one of the greatest tacticians of the Red Army...
...Communist custom, loudly pleaded guilty. Judge Ulrich gave out the verdict: "The court has established that the defendants were employed by the military secret service of a foreign government conducting an unfriendly policy against the Soviet Union. They . . . permitted wrecking acts intended to undermine the power of the Red Army and to prepare for . . . the defeat of the Red Army in event of an attack against it. ... The special court session found all eight guilty of violating their military oath, of treason to the Red Army and of treason to the motherland and decided to deprive them of all military...
Promptly then the big gold star was ripped from the cap of Marshal Tukhachevsky, the four red pips from the collars of his colleagues, and all eight of them fell dead before the acrid volleys of a firing squad. Official Pravda wrote their obituary: "Dogs die like dogs. There is no place for such murderers in the Soviet scheme of things...
...simply that they had sold information to a "foreign power." Japan and Germany are the only two powers conceivably in the market for Russian military secrets, and of these Nazi Germany is closest to Moscow. Anti-Soviet rumor factories in Warsaw, Riga and Berlin quickly spread stories of abortive Red Army mutinies in a dozen districts, bloody street riots, even the assassination of Nazi Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg...