B Bryce New member Jul 30, 2009 #2 Stalin's 1937-38 purge of officers left them severely under-led in the opening days of WWII -- they had no good commanders in place when Hitler betrayed his Soviet Allies with the launch of Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941.
Stalin's 1937-38 purge of officers left them severely under-led in the opening days of WWII -- they had no good commanders in place when Hitler betrayed his Soviet Allies with the launch of Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941.
