Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1937, duk da haka, Stalin ya tsarkake Red Army na mafi kyawun shugabannin soja. Tsoron cewa sojoji sun yi barazana ga mulkinsa, Stalin ya daure ko kashe jami'an Red Army da yawa, wanda aka kiyasta dubbai, ciki har da uku daga cikin marshals biyar. Waɗannan ayyukan sun kasance suna lalata ƙarfin Red Army a cikin Soviet-Finnish War
(Yakin hunturu) na 1939 <unk> 40 da kuma a Yaƙin Duniya na II.