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2008-09-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 When Khrushchev was deposed by the Soviet military, who used trickery to rig the politburo vote, Brezhnev had to promise them the Moon and the stars for their critical support over the other candidate.

He was amazingly bitter about this. So he spent his entire time in office planning, and when he knew that he was going to die, he arranged the most vicious purge of military leaders since Stalin.

From most radical to least radical, Admirals and Generals were dying like they had the mummy's curse. Their entire naval staff was taken out in a single aircraft crash at sea, something like seven commanding Admirals and their deputies at once.

This was followed with car crashes, heart attacks, suicides, slip and fall accidents, etc., that wiped out about 40 of their top military leaders. By the time Brezhnev died, his chosen successor Andropov, a KGB man, had zero military obligation or control.

And the KGB, and its successor, the FSB, have dominated politics in Russia ever since. This became even more pronounced with the huge RIF of the Soviet military with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-15 00:35|| 2008-09-15 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course it was Krushchev who had the military behind him when he got rid of Beria.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-09-15 11:56|| 2008-09-15 11:56|| Front Page Top

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