Even as the threat of German militarization and the potential invasion of Russia grew,Stalin

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Stalin ordered the killing and imprisonment of his own generals and officers in the late 1930s during the Great Purges. This weakened the Soviet military and left them vulnerable to the German invasion in 1941. Despite the growing threat of Germany, Stalin continued to pursue his paranoid and brutal policies of eliminating perceived threats within his own ranks.

Even as the Threat of German Militarization and the Potential