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Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Tukhachevsky was a Soviet military commander who led Red Army fronts in the Russian Civil War and the Polish–Soviet War of 1920. As chief of staff and deputy commissar of defence he pressed for the mechanisation of the army and helped develop the theory of deep operations, and he was made a marshal in 1935. Arrested in Stalin's purge of the military, he was executed in June 1937 after a secret trial.
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