Takhaohevery was one of a group of con careor : officers in the Czarist forces who went over to tho Red Arry when it was’ organised by Leon Trotsky. Under Trotsky's command, Tukhbachevsky distinguished himself in the difficult yearn of war when the. oti powers ‘sought to crush the young workers‘ state.
Trotsky had high regard for Tukhachevsky's sxinigey ¢ talents but rated him mediocre in political capacity. It was under Tukhbacheveky that such sei niece as parachutists vere introduced: inte modern werfore,
“Phere was no doubt about fukhachevsly' s conpiate loyalty ‘to “ _Saviat ‘Union and to its civilian. authorities. Stalin, fearing:
soible focus of ofposition to his totalitarian rule, wanted the "hs liant ceneral out of tho read alonc with every major. anager
any way associetod with Lenin and Trotsky as outstanding ~apulaparatore: of the two founderp of the Soviet Union. Sueh cures: were framed+up by Stalin on charges of eens out" to Nitler and. ost often shot as “foooiot mad dogs.” .
Irom the article in Oconyok, it appears that the author aid not have available the toneceetet of the secret c ial. Whether this means that it was Apotrecel by Staelin or that at is too iamoging to. hrushchev or others now prominent in the Soviet - - government cannot, of course, be doternined, Twe of Tukhaohevaky* s nine Judges, Voronhilov and udenny, are still alive,’
Vhiy the article should bo published at this time peneine obscure. It is to bo noted, however, that Tukhachevaky: was: among the first of Stalin's viotins to be rohabilitated following Khrushehev's famous adnissions of Stalin's crines at the Swentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist porty., eo
- Army. ‘offictalo havo lon: doen bitter over what Stalin asa te Soviet defenses on the eve of Hitler's invaston. Since Tukhacheve- . sky's rehabilitation, army periodicals have carried many articles about bin and the tradition hoe roprossntod. in the: tiilitary adsfense of the Soviet Union.
Publication. of an: : artiole about Stalin's under: of Dukhachewaky and his oclese relativos also provides a certain counterbalance -to. Khrushchev's recent step: backward in de-Stalinization when, . admitting that he “shed tears” over bis coffin, he decors the.
= Ja late dictator anc denounced those who would go-."too far" in demoting hin.
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