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Was there any chance of a military coup in the Soviet Union during the initial days of the Russo-German War? How might this have unfolded?
Was there any chance of a military coup in the Soviet Union during the initial days of the Russo-German War? How might this have unfolded?
I guess the Germans want to be wiped out by the RN in TTL. There is NO way in hell they can get a decent number of troops in Ireland, assuming they can land any at all.
Not in June. Stavka was founded several weeks into war.In a word, not really. The Soviet military leadership of this day was rather apolitical, and those who weren't were Stalin loyalists. Also, the Soviet system was set up to make such things difficult (strong political control of the military generally; this was the nominal function of the Commissars, though they were in practice mostly concerned with other matters, such as the political education of the troops). Ultimately, the military was firmly under Stavka's control, and Stavka was Stalin by extension.
In the first weeks of war, before his speech on 3rd of July, Stalin panicked. He was sulking in his suburban villa - and when a representation of important leaders showed up there, he thought that he was deposed and that they were arriving to arrest him.
He was wrong. They were begging for him to return to Moscow and take leadership. But the fact that he thought it would be so shows it would not have been ASB.
A coup against Stalin is possible, but it will be from those party magnates rather than from the Red Army.
Was there any chance of a military coup in the Soviet Union during the initial days of the Russo-German War? How might this have unfolded?