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Artesian wrote: >" ... like all that stuff >"proving"... Tukhachevsky planned a military coup with the >aid of German paratroopers.... To which Grover responded: >Yes, that stuff and a lot of other stuff (not paratroopers, >though not that I've seen). It's not a question of "belief" >or "disbelief". It's a question of evidence. Are you saying that you have the evidence proving comrade Tukhachevsky was a traitor? This I would like to see and since this is in the realm of the verboten here, please send me the references off list. I am aware of the allegations and the activity of German Intelligence via the Czechs but nothing I have seen is credible. Marshall Zhukov was not alone in the highest ranks of the RKKA (and then the Soviet Army)in believing that Tukhachevsky was, always, a loyal soldier of the Soviet Union whose skill was sorely missed in confronting the Wehrmacht. As to a critical re-evaluation of this crucial era, there is certainly nothing wrong with that. The Cold War construction of "totalitarianism" is a lie told for political purposes and I believe scholars such as Robert Thurston (Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941) are doing a very credible job of unraveling this myth. Now if someone would inform the tea baggers that our center-right president can't be both a communist and a Nazi. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
