Left Unity is our motto, but when unity is put into practice it can be extremely messy. The Left in the civil war was made up of many revolutionary and popular organisations, which cooperated to an extent but were divided by their divergent goals and tactics.
What are your answers for finding ways for multiple left factions to act with unity in times of crisis?
What you said, but also let Durruti take Zaragoza. Franco doesn't have the power to stop it and capturing it basically ensures that Catalonia is safe from conquest.
Stalin should exile his untrustworthy generals to Spain rather than purge them. Tukhachevsky would have been a great boon to the Republican forces.
holy shit Red emigre purge-ists leading armored coloumns in Spain? :stalin-feels-good:
I wouldn't trust a Field Marshall that had the highest access to strategic and national level military plans of not just his home country but of allied countries as well when he would drunkenly brag about selling said info to the nazis. I mean maybe with an commissar squad to make sure he doesn't try to defect maybe
But I would have preferred dispatching Konstantin Rokossovsky instead of having him jailed. With a mechanized division or two too.
I’m not confident that he sold info to the nazis.
Yeah, I think the consensus is Heydrich got inside the NKVD decision circle and Yezhov and Stalin were already inclined to think the worst.
Anything supposedly said in the confessions of anyone is not applicable to a case, considering torture was involved
Yeah, I'd have a few icepick ninjas at hand nearby just in case.