Stalin's Great Purge - Effects on the Red Army 1936-1938

They paid during Operation Barbarossa

Stalin was a hard Dude, one of his best was his commander of spies here in the US. There are no known pictures of him. His real name was a Livonian version of the Saxon Name Tilton. He was recalled by Stalin in 1937 and spent the next five years on an all expense paid tour of the Gulag. In 1942 they shot him.

An effort by a totalitarian dictator to eliminate all political opposition. The man was truly a monster.