ABSTRACT

Marshal Voroshilov's had made accusations of Marshal Tukhachevskiy and the other Soviet military leaders condemned to death by Stalin. Throughout the Second World War the military thought of the fascist generals, based on a reactionary, idealistic world view, added nothing new and was unable to add anything new to the general basis of military affairs of bourgeois states. Most important, what the fascist military clique was able to do was to resort to the bankrupt adventuristic idea of "blitzkrieg" of the First World War in which was reflected the organic inability of the German military clique to lift themselves to the level of scientific understanding of modern war. Therefore in their calculations on a quick defeat of the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler's commanders as a whole proposed the same idea of "lightning" war, the invincibility of German weapons and the decisive role of the surprise factor.