Prior to the Second World War, Stalin had many of the USSR's top generals murdered. Some, who were lucky enough to escape murder, were basically cashiered. Some of those saw revived careers during World War Two, although why a person who had been lucky enough to escape a bullet in the back of the head would later work for the executioner is a pretty open question.
In 2015 Putin fired nineteen generals.
I wonder if they're missed? Maybe there's so many, it doesn't matter.
He just fired eight more.
Two, of course, died in combat within the last couple of weeks, joining 4,000 other Russians killed in action.
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