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Hm. One wonders how this purged Soviet Army managed to inflict over 3 times as many German KIA in the first seven weeks of Barbarossa as the combined Franco-Anglo-Belgian-Dutch armies managed in the six-week campaign in the West.
What were the numbers of soldiers involved in the two campaigns that you are comparing. i.e: Size of armies in the west and the casualties? Size of the armies in Barbarossa and the casualties?
And the purges themselves had no impact on Western estimates of the Soviet military. They derided it before the Purges, and the derided it after the Purges.
The effect on the estimates is of course irrelevant. What matters is the actual effect!
Tukhachevskii was discovered in the West to have been a military genius only after he was safely dead.
How does the fact that Tukhachevskii was judged to have been a genius matter? Moreover how does the timing of this recognition matter? Just what does it matter whether he was safely dead or unsafely? alive? Perhaps your phrasing sounds good, but what is it supposed to show? -- Rpstyk
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