 This also was a purge of the Red Army. The Red Army, most of the top officers of the Red Army were purged, executed, or exiled. But looking ahead, when the Germans invaded, that allowed younger officers, more innovative officers to rise to the top. And that's one reason that the Red Army did, after initial defeats, did so well in World War II. But in any case, for Stalin, excuse me, for Kennan, for Kennan, who had partied and had talked,