In World War II, the Soviet-German battlefield was the main battlefield in Europe, and the Soviet army made the first contribution to the defeat of Germany. According to the latest statistics, in the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 1945, more than 10 million Soviet soldiers died. The entire population of the Union died more than 23 million. It can be said that the alliance has dried up blood in the war. By the end of the war, the Alliance was devastated, production and economy devastated, and in ruins. But in any case, the war is over! The Soviets had swept through half of Europe, pushing their control into Germany, and the Alliance had become one of the most powerful countries in the world. The soldiers who survived the war were also able to return to their hometowns, no matter how poor they were, at least they could see their families.
Victory in the war
But Stalin, who claimed to have an iron fist, did not intend to let the alliance rest. After the war, the alliance was surrounded by western countries led by the United States, and the United States openly called for the use of various means to contain Soviet Russia, and the entire country soon entered a state of confrontation on the verge of war. It was at this time that a new round of rectification began in Soviet Russia. Stalin first attacked the Soviet army, which had made great achievements in the war. From 1946 to the end of the 1940s, more than 2,000 officers at all levels were arrested. These included the famous Marshal Zhukov and General Roverkov, who commanded air force operations during wartime.
Zhukov
Zhukov was fortunate because his reputation was so great that his hasty disposition could cause huge problems, and he was released shortly after his arrest and thrown into the Ural region as the commander of a reserve military district, which was a life-saving. From the end of the 1940s onwards, Zhukov's name was erased from all books on the Great Patriotic War, as if the marshal who commanded the Soviet victories under Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Berlin, Germany, never existed. It was only after 1953 that Zhukov returned to the public eye. The air force commander Roverkov was arrested for an embarrassing reason: the production of inferior fighters during the war caused huge losses to the air force. It was as if the soldier had deliberately hoped that his pilot would lose the battle.
At the beginning of the war, a large number of Soviet troops were captured
There was a group of Soviet officers and men who were particularly miserable. They were captured in the war, tortured in German prisoner-of-war camps, and died nine times. But as soon as they emerged from the enemy's prisoner-of-war camp, they were considered "people who could no longer be trusted." Many were loaded onto trains by their own people and thrown into the icy Siberia to continue serving their sentences. A Soviet second lieutenant named K. Masrov, captured in 1942, escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1943 to join the guerrillas, and in August 1944 reunited with a large Soviet army, participated in the subsequent battles, and also made a meritorious contribution. But after the war, he was arrested as soon as he returned home, and worked hard in the coal mines of Siberia until 1953...
Soviet sniper
Stalin was ruthless against the Soviets, in part because of suppressing the Soviet forces that had swelled up in the war, preventing them from falling out of their tails and getting rid of their own control. In his 1946 New Year's toast, he deliberately made no mention of the Union armed forces, and some sensitive-minded soldiers already felt that the atmosphere was not right.
The Soviets met the Allied divisions
On the other hand, the opening of the country, especially germany, which was also a highly prosperous country in Western Europe, allowed millions of soldiers to see the world outside the Alliance: dense streets, a large number of cars, bright and spacious houses, and many flush toilets that Soviet officers and soldiers had never seen before. This is in stark contrast to the poverty of the alliance. After the war, the Soviet troops stationed in Germany were able to have extensive contact with Allied officers and men, and Zhukov even established a fairly good personal friendship with the Allied generals. All this made Stalin think that the Soviet army must be "collected".