In 1941, a large number of 5.5 million troops secretly mobilized from the western battlefield, Germany, and several servants gathered on the borders of the Soviet Union. At the behest of Germany, the Soviet Union was immediately drawn into the vortex of World War II. In just 7 days, the western gate of the Soviet Union was captured by the Germans, and the Soviet Western Group Military District was almost completely annihilated.
In the face of Germany's undeclared war, the Western Military District of the USSR became a lamb to be slaughtered. At that time, it was a critical period for the Soviet Union to reuse all its troops and commanders, why was the Soviet Union eager to shoot 4 high-level generals, including General Pavlov, at that time, and also accused of treason?
The answer is no, because in 1956 the Soviet Union rehabilitated four Pavlovs and removed them from the charge of "treason." So why did the Soviet Union at that time convict these 4 people of treason, shoot them, and then issue a notice of execution to the Soviet officers?
This also begins with Pavlov's personal smooth military career, during the First World War, Pavlov became a soldier, fighting for years to protect the motherland from invasion. Later, he joined the Soviet Red Army. After the success of the October Revolution, he became a young commander in the Soviet Army. Since then, he has studied twice in the Soviet Military Academy.
The further training of the military academy allowed Pavlov to become a brigade commander in only a few years, and he had a place in the mechanized army. Then the Spanish Civil War broke out, and the warlord Franco, who was close to Germany, staged a coup d'état in an attempt to overthrow the Spanish communist regime. Subsequently, the Soviet Union appointed Pavlov to Spain for support. The experience of this support made Pavlov's military career after returning to China feel like "hanging up".
With his outstanding performance in the Spanish Civil War, Pavlov received the "Hero of the Soviet Union" medal, and in addition to commanding the tank units in the Spanish Civil War, Pavlov was promoted to the rank of Minister of Armored Tanks after his return. However, this experience also laid the groundwork for Pavlov's shooting.
After a period of time in the Panzer Department, Pavlov was appointed Director of the Armored Corps of Automobile Tanks, while also in charge of the important Western Military District, helping the Soviet Union to guard the Western Gate - Belarus. After the German invasion, he was ordered to be promoted to Soviet general.
However, the speed of promotion of such a rocket also made Pavlov involuntarily expand. Based on his experience as commander of the tank unit in Spain, he believed that the tank was a "thin-skinned coffin" that was not suitable for the war at that time, and insisted on breaking up the tank unit without listening to the advice of other commanders, which made the tank unit of the Western Military District useless.
Moreover, there are also considerable problems in the deployment of various services, and it is very easy to be "nested" by the enemy. Sure enough, such problems were fully exposed when the Germans attacked. After the Germans cut off the communications of the Western Military District, it took only two or three days for the Germans to occupy many important places such as the airfield and surround all the troops of the Western Military District.
Looking at Pavlov at that time, instead of responding to the German army in time, he fled to a nearby army group to take command, which was equivalent to abandoning the entire western military district. Even when Zhukov arrived at the scene later, he was powerless to return to the sky in the face of the 1 million German troops who had formed a circle of encirclement.
Such a fiasco also made the Soviet high-level angry. They put all the blame on Pavlov and four other generals, who were sentenced to death in a court-martial court. But even if this is the case, it is impossible to justify being charged with treason. As for the execution notice, it attracted the attention of the whole army, just to kill chickens and scare monkeys.