The purges in the Red Army officers in 1937-1938 were used by official Soviet historiography as one of the main arguments for explaining the Soviet Union's unpreparedness for war with Germany. However, contemporary Russian historians have refuted this argument and, based on their research, have shown the true extent and real effects of purges.
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