PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agoMathias Rust's plane just prior to illegally landing in Red Square, Moscow, in the Soviet Union, 1987lemmy.worldimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down10
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minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.socialMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 months agoMilitaries can end up with very entrenched officer corps. It may not have been as brutal as the Great Purge, but it likely had similarly massive effects on the institutions of the Soviet military.
Militaries can end up with very entrenched officer corps. It may not have been as brutal as the Great Purge, but it likely had similarly massive effects on the institutions of the Soviet military.