By Bill Yenne
In the midst of global warfare II, Nazi army intelligence found a likely effortless option to win the battle for Adolf Hitler. the 3 heads of the Allied forces—Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin—were making plans to satisfy in Tehran in October, 1943. below Hitler's own course, the Nazis introduced “Operation lengthy Jump,” an complex plan to trace the Allied leaders in Tehran and assassinate all 3 males even as. “I consider it can make a superior haul in the event that they may get all 3 of us,” Roosevelt later stated. Historian invoice Yenne retells the great, globe-spanning tale of the main formidable assassination plot ever thwarted in Operation lengthy Jump.
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64 The low quality of the Red Army officer corps on the eve of war was also a product of the prewar expansion of the Red Army and the subsequent massive manpower mobilization once war began. In 1935 the Red Army numbered 930,000 men. By the end of 1938, it had grown to 1,513,000 men and, by 1 January 1941, to 4,200,000 men, including the internal security forces. 65 Compounding the effects of the officer corps' expansion, in summer 1940 the Red Army's school system could accommodate only 4045 percent of the Army's educational requirements.
Like Novikov, however, he was rehabilitated after Stalin's death, only to be dismissed and retired in 1956 at age 51 after running afoul of Khrushchev. MEKHLIS Among those serving Stalin as members or representatives of the Stavka and in other Party or State control organs were men whose sheer cunning, ruthlessness, and outright cruelty suited them admirably for service to a tyrant in a thoroughly totalitarian state. The very existence of these men acted as the "glue" that held the regime together and preserved autocracy under trying wartime conditions.
M. Portugal' sic)', Komandnye kadry Sovetskykh vooruzhennykh sil v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny [The command cadre of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Great Patriotic War] (Moscow: VAF, 1991 ), 64 P. 8. Prepared for instruction at the Frunze Academy and numbered for official use. , Pp. 8-9. 30 - Soviet-Finnish War, the Spanish Civil Wear, or in combat against the Japanese at Khalkhin-Gol. 66 The Red Army accelerated its professional training in late 1940 and early 1941, doubling the number of military schools and increasing the number of graduates in existing schools and training courses.