Looking back at history, Stalin conducted a purge of military officers (albeit in a more terminal fashion). It gutted the Red Army's leadership and effectiveness right at the time they needed it the most. Not a good move.
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really came around to bite him with the doctors
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I was thinking this exact thing
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It led to an army so shitty that the Nazis killed ten million of them before they finally beat back an enemy they should have whipped easily.
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