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Jiang argues that the Red Army purge, though disastrous by conventional standards, may have improved Soviet wartime adaptability by removing conservative senior hierarchy.
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Jiang argues that the Red Army purge, though disastrous by conventional standards, may have improved Soviet wartime adaptability by removing conservative senior hierarchy.
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Jiang argues Soviet adaptability in World War II was partly enabled by the purges, while German doctrine became brittle once its initial plan failed.
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If Christians and Jews were companions of Muhammad, later Arab rulers would have legitimacy reasons to purge both those people and their history.
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"50 or 57 army corps commanders, 154 out of 186 division commanders. So what he did was he completely wiped out the entire leadership..."
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"And so I know this is a hard idea to understand, but let's just do a thought experiment to understand this idea. Let's say..."
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"...that they lost a lot of their major leadership in the purges."
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"...difference between the Germans and the Russians is Hitler did not purge his military. Stalin did purge his military. And that's why the Soviets..."
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"It's a revolution where ordinary people were so disgusted with the current leadership that they opted for a new belief system. Okay? The problem..."
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"...They're more legitimate than you are. So therefore they have to purge that history. Okay? But knowing that there'll be a series of continued..."
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