Probably told them to quit their Stalin and git ‘r dun.
Talking about Stalin, that’s how he dealt with his own military, gutted the officer corps just enough to give Hitler a chance; lucky for him, Hitler was a horrible “general” himself, unlike the Ukrainian officer corps. (That’s “core”, Barry, not “corpse.”)
But it also most likely prevented Stalin from being overthrown in a coup.
Stalin executed most of the senior leadership in the military before WW II.
During the war, he ordered many Generals to lead suicide charges and then awarded them “Hero of the Soviet Union” medals. Stalin was even one paranoid than Putin.