Snake Featherston
Banned
Why is everyone saying that the Red Army purge hurt the Red Army so badly that it couldn't fight Germany? In 1939, a year after the purge, The Red Army under Zhukov defeated the Japanese in Mongolia and convinced the Japanese to sign a Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union, which lasted until the Soviets abandoned it at the end of World War II.
In 1939 the USSR also went to war with Finland and bungled the war horribly to the point that Marshal Mannerheim gave them some very expensive lessons in tactics....Zhukov was the best Soviet general of the war so his being present at that battle offers a skewed view of the entire Red Army of the time.