WI: No-Purges, Does Stalin Survive 1941?

If the Great Purge was butterflied, and Barbarossa still kicks off in June '41, would..

1. The Wehrmacht still be able to achieve the rapid success that it was able to achieve IOTL?

2. If so, would Stalin still be able to hold power?
 
1. No, because the Red Army wouldn't be weakened as much as it was in 1941. Without bad Soviet performance in the Winter War we should ask whether Nazi will attack them.

2. Even if the Wehrmacht would advance as far as OTL there was no realistic chance of a military coup. Stalin purged the military to get total control, not because there was a good chance of a coup.
 
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