Koba´s (aka stalin ) brutal attack on Marxist red army . 1936 - 41 Red Army suffered the most severe losses in its history what was behind of this ?

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Koba´s (aka stalin ) brutal attack on Marxist red army what was behind of this ?

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In the period 1936 - 1941, the command staff of the Red Army suffered the most severe losses in its history **:

1. Military council under the people's commissar of defense - out of 85 people, 78 were arrested.
2. Of the five marshals of the USSR, three were arrested and eliminated (Tukhachevsky, Egorov, Blucher) ***.
3. All five (Yakir, Uborevich, Belov, etc.) commanders of the first rank were destroyed.
4. Both flagships of the fleet of I rank — Orlov, Viktorov — were shot.
5. Both army commissars of I rank - Gamarnik and Smirnov were killed.
6. Destroyed five of the six commanders II rank.
7. Eliminated all three flagships of the fleet II rank.
8. Of the fifteen army commissars of the second rank, fourteen were killed, one committed suicide.
9. An armwormist died in the camp.
10. Komkor destroyed almost everything (64 people); five came out of the conclusion.
11. All six flagships of rank I were arrested, five were shot, one was released.
12. Almost all corps commissars (31 people) were arrested, 27 were killed, and four were left.
13. Of the 201 divisions, 153 were repressed; 131 people died, 22 returned from prison.
14. Of the seven flagships of the second rank, five were killed, two survived.
15. Of the 130 division commissioners, 85 were arrested; liquidated 72, returned from prison 13.
16. Of the 474 brigades, 247 were repressed; 217 were killed, 30 people returned from prison.
17. Of the 304 brigade commissars, 145 were repressed."

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What is odd was that even Koba lost control of the purge, even though he was the main architect in starting it.

After it ended later than was planned, he killed several people including Nikolai Yezhov,
 
What is odd was that even Koba lost control of the purge, even though he was the main architect in starting it.

After it ended later than was planned, he killed several people including Nikolai Yezhov,
Koba killed personal many more than just Nikolai Yezhov. Kaganovich, Lazar' Moiseevich signed 120 mass - execution lists , Koba around 100 (the second place in Politburo )

i do agree with you Koba lost control of the purge in 1937, only Mingrel Beria could stop it, without him USSR ´d run out of communist leaders very fast
 
The Mingrelian affair, or Mingrelian case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in 1951 and 1952 in order to accuse several members of the Georgian SSR Communist Party of Mingrelian extraction of secession and collaboration with the Western powers.

Events
Initiated on the personal orders of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, the affair apparently aimed at eliminating the influence of Lavrentiy Beria, of whom Stalin was getting increasingly suspicious.[1] The fabricated accusations of forming the "Mingrelian nationalist ring", separatism, collaboration with the "Western imperialists", and the Georgian émigré centre in Paris, were followed by a purge, which delivered a hard blow to the Georgian party organization, and specifically targeted its Mingrelian (a subethnic group of the Georgians) members, mostly Beria's protégés. Many leading officials were removed from their posts and arrested; thousands of innocent people were subjected to repressions. Candide Charkviani, who at the time occupied the position of the first secretary of the Georgian SSR, also suffered during the Mingrelian Affair. For years historians erroneously thought that Candide Charkviani was Mingrelian and that he was punished because of his links with Beria. However, the newly opened archives in Georgia provide evidence that Charkviani, who was Lechkhumian (from the Lechkhumi region of Georgia) and not Mingrelian or Svan, was accused because he allegedly failed to “detect and repress the criminal nationalist ring of counter revolutionaries within the ranks of the Georgian Communist Party”.[2] Moreover, it has emerged that Charkviani's relations with Beria had always been strained and that Beria tolerated Charkviani only because the latter was supported by Stalin. Immediately following Stalin's death, all Beria's clients who suffered during the Mingrelian Affair were restored. Yet Charkviani, on Beria's orders, was separated from his family and moved to Central Asia into exile.[3]

Many aspects of the Mingrelian Affair are still not completely understood. Beyond Stalin's growing distrust of his lieutenant Beria, who had particularly consolidated his positions after World War II, the affair also reflected a bitter power struggle among rival clans in the Communist élite of Georgia. It might also have echoed similar accusations of nationalism leveled against the Georgian "National Communists" in the 1922 Georgian Affair.

As a result of the events, Beria's power was reduced significantly in Georgia, but he still managed to retain his position in the Politburo. After Stalin's death in 1953, Beria managed to temporarily reinstate his clients in Georgia. However later many of them were prosecuted as the members of "Beria's gang".[citation needed]

The new Soviet leadership of Nikita Khrushchev admitted that the case was fabricated and eventually rehabilitated its victims
 
Koba´s (aka stalin ) brutal attack on Marxist red army what was behind of this ?

"
In the period 1936 - 1941, the command staff of the Red Army suffered the most severe losses in its history **:

1. Military council under the people's commissar of defense - out of 85 people, 78 were arrested.
2. Of the five marshals of the USSR, three were arrested and eliminated (Tukhachevsky, Egorov, Blucher) ***.
3. All five (Yakir, Uborevich, Belov, etc.) commanders of the first rank were destroyed.
4. Both flagships of the fleet of I rank — Orlov, Viktorov — were shot.
5. Both army commissars of I rank - Gamarnik and Smirnov were killed.
6. Destroyed five of the six commanders II rank.
7. Eliminated all three flagships of the fleet II rank.
8. Of the fifteen army commissars of the second rank, fourteen were killed, one committed suicide.
9. An armwormist died in the camp.
10. Komkor destroyed almost everything (64 people); five came out of the conclusion.
11. All six flagships of rank I were arrested, five were shot, one was released.
12. Almost all corps commissars (31 people) were arrested, 27 were killed, and four were left.
13. Of the 201 divisions, 153 were repressed; 131 people died, 22 returned from prison.
14. Of the seven flagships of the second rank, five were killed, two survived.
15. Of the 130 division commissioners, 85 were arrested; liquidated 72, returned from prison 13.
16. Of the 474 brigades, 247 were repressed; 217 were killed, 30 people returned from prison.
17. Of the 304 brigade commissars, 145 were repressed."

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Apparently Uncle Joe was fearful of the Red Army leadership.

People say Donnie demands loyalty. Koba took it to another level.
 
The Mingrelian affair, or Mingrelian case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in 1951 and 1952 in order to accuse several members of the Georgian SSR Communist Party of Mingrelian extraction of secession and collaboration with the Western powers.

Events
Initiated on the personal orders of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, the affair apparently aimed at eliminating the influence of Lavrentiy Beria, of whom Stalin was getting increasingly suspicious.[1] The fabricated accusations of forming the "Mingrelian nationalist ring", separatism, collaboration with the "Western imperialists", and the Georgian émigré centre in Paris, were followed by a purge, which delivered a hard blow to the Georgian party organization, and specifically targeted its Mingrelian (a subethnic group of the Georgians) members, mostly Beria's protégés. Many leading officials were removed from their posts and arrested; thousands of innocent people were subjected to repressions. Candide Charkviani, who at the time occupied the position of the first secretary of the Georgian SSR, also suffered during the Mingrelian Affair. For years historians erroneously thought that Candide Charkviani was Mingrelian and that he was punished because of his links with Beria. However, the newly opened archives in Georgia provide evidence that Charkviani, who was Lechkhumian (from the Lechkhumi region of Georgia) and not Mingrelian or Svan, was accused because he allegedly failed to “detect and repress the criminal nationalist ring of counter revolutionaries within the ranks of the Georgian Communist Party”.[2] Moreover, it has emerged that Charkviani's relations with Beria had always been strained and that Beria tolerated Charkviani only because the latter was supported by Stalin. Immediately following Stalin's death, all Beria's clients who suffered during the Mingrelian Affair were restored. Yet Charkviani, on Beria's orders, was separated from his family and moved to Central Asia into exile.[3]

Many aspects of the Mingrelian Affair are still not completely understood. Beyond Stalin's growing distrust of his lieutenant Beria, who had particularly consolidated his positions after World War II, the affair also reflected a bitter power struggle among rival clans in the Communist élite of Georgia. It might also have echoed similar accusations of nationalism leveled against the Georgian "National Communists" in the 1922 Georgian Affair.

As a result of the events, Beria's power was reduced significantly in Georgia, but he still managed to retain his position in the Politburo. After Stalin's death in 1953, Beria managed to temporarily reinstate his clients in Georgia. However later many of them were prosecuted as the members of "Beria's gang".[citation needed]

The new Soviet leadership of Nikita Khrushchev admitted that the case was fabricated and eventually rehabilitated its victims
Beria was enormously powerful under Stalin. Who knows how many thousands or millions died on his orders.

He got what he deserved when General Pavel Batitsky put a bullet in his head in 1953.
 
The Mingrelian affair, or Mingrelian case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in 1951 and 1952 in order to accuse several members of the Georgian SSR Communist Party of Mingrelian extraction of secession and collaboration with the Western powers.

Events
Initiated on the personal orders of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, the affair apparently aimed at eliminating the influence of Lavrentiy Beria, of whom Stalin was getting increasingly suspicious.[1] The fabricated accusations of forming the "Mingrelian nationalist ring", separatism, collaboration with the "Western imperialists", and the Georgian émigré centre in Paris, were followed by a purge, which delivered a hard blow to the Georgian party organization, and specifically targeted its Mingrelian (a subethnic group of the Georgians) members, mostly Beria's protégés. Many leading officials were removed from their posts and arrested; thousands of innocent people were subjected to repressions. Candide Charkviani, who at the time occupied the position of the first secretary of the Georgian SSR, also suffered during the Mingrelian Affair. For years historians erroneously thought that Candide Charkviani was Mingrelian and that he was punished because of his links with Beria. However, the newly opened archives in Georgia provide evidence that Charkviani, who was Lechkhumian (from the Lechkhumi region of Georgia) and not Mingrelian or Svan, was accused because he allegedly failed to “detect and repress the criminal nationalist ring of counter revolutionaries within the ranks of the Georgian Communist Party”.[2] Moreover, it has emerged that Charkviani's relations with Beria had always been strained and that Beria tolerated Charkviani only because the latter was supported by Stalin. Immediately following Stalin's death, all Beria's clients who suffered during the Mingrelian Affair were restored. Yet Charkviani, on Beria's orders, was separated from his family and moved to Central Asia into exile.[3]

Many aspects of the Mingrelian Affair are still not completely understood. Beyond Stalin's growing distrust of his lieutenant Beria, who had particularly consolidated his positions after World War II, the affair also reflected a bitter power struggle among rival clans in the Communist élite of Georgia. It might also have echoed similar accusations of nationalism leveled against the Georgian "National Communists" in the 1922 Georgian Affair.

As a result of the events, Beria's power was reduced significantly in Georgia, but he still managed to retain his position in the Politburo. After Stalin's death in 1953, Beria managed to temporarily reinstate his clients in Georgia. However later many of them were prosecuted as the members of "Beria's gang".[citation needed]

The new Soviet leadership of Nikita Khrushchev admitted that the case was fabricated and eventually rehabilitated its victims
Beria was enormously powerful under Stalin. Who knows how many thousands or millions died on his orders.

He got what he deserved when General Pavel Batitsky put a bullet in his head in 1953.
"Beria was enormously powerful under Stalin. Who knows how many thousands or millions died on his orders." actually Beria was the one who stopped stalin´s Purges. 3 times at least, the only one technocrat in Politburo who could provide the resultants + Mingrelian like Koba himself (even thought Koba saw himself as a "russian")
 

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