Iona Yakir
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Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir was a Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II. He was an early and major military victim of the Great Purge, al
Yakir Iona
1966 USSR stamp of Yakir
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later executed during the Mos
Iona Yakir
…of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II. He was an early and major military victim of the Great Purge, alongside Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Born in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, into the prosperous family of a Jewish pharmacist, Yakir graduated from the local secondary school in…
Tukhachevsky, c. 1935
The Tukhachevsky family in 1904
Tukhachevsky in 1920
Polish soldiers displaying captured Soviet battle flags after the Battle of Warsaw in 1920