The Soviet Union in the twentieth century, like his army, is admirable, especially the Soviet army in the Second World War, under the lightning attack of the German army, was able to turn from defeat to victory from a desperate situation, and made a great contribution to the final victory of the world anti-fascism, which is admirable.
The strength of the Soviet army is naturally inseparable from its highly qualified generals, before and after World War II, the Soviet army gave birth to a large number of outstanding generals, such as Zhukov, Frunze, etc., as we know, but there is also a Soviet general, the achievement and ability are not under these two people, he is the legendary figure in the history of the Soviet army for Ubolevich.
Born in 1896, Ubolevich was brilliant from an early age, grew up to enlist in the army, became a professional soldier, when the February Revolution broke out in Russia, Ubolevich gradually became a soldier of the Red Army, and he quickly became a pivotal figure in the Red Army with his outstanding command skills.
Two aspects of Ubolevich's admiration are crucial. One was the first to propose the development of modern equipment of the Soviet army to meet the operational needs of modern warfare. His proposal was initially opposed by other soviet generals, and later at his insistence, it finally got Stalin's approval, so the Soviet army began to be regularized and modernized, and its weapons and equipment ranked first in the world before World War II.
The second factor was that he proposed the "great depth" theory of operations. The so-called great depth is a combat strategy, when the army breaks through the enemy's defense line, all arms of the army cooperate to form a lightning encirclement posture against the enemy army, so as to play a strategic purpose of completely annihilating the enemy army. It can be said that this is also a copy of the German "Blitzkrieg", the two have the same magic, in that era, this combat theory is undoubtedly very advanced.
But the talented Ubolevich did not escape the fate of being executed in the end, and the Great Purge of the Soviet Era made him pay the price of his life. It was only after the beginning of World War II that Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Stalin, remembering the other side again, could not help but sigh: "You should train your troops as you did when Ubolevich was alive." Under the words, it is a deep remembrance of this outstanding military general, and the generals present have never been silent and dare not talk.