This is why the USSR lost 20 million people in World War 2. Stalin was such a paranoid tyrant, even the appearance of competency was a Death Sentence. Top generals and other high-ranking officers (many of whom fought in the Russian Civil War) were liquidated and replaced by toadies who were too terrified to speak out, even if it meant warning Stalin about Operation Barbarrosa. The Generals who DID win the war were either anonymous low-ranking officers in the 1930's, released from a Gulag after the National Socialists invaded, and/or didn't give a crap about his men because he knew he outnumbered the National Socialists and would simply overwhelm them (Zhukov).
And, finally, don't give me this crap about how the Soviet Union was the better country than the US because of all its sacrifices. The USSR lost 20 million people because of incompetency. Josef Stalin blackmailed the US and Britain with constant threats of dropping out of the war, and we sacrificed thousands of sailors and merchant Marines just to get trucks and planes to Murmansk. America only lost 400,000 men fighting on two fronts (including a nasty race war with Japan that rivaled the National Socialists' hatred of the Slavs)
An anecdote from the war: when the Russians and Americans met on the Elbe River, the Soviets were astonished at the Americans- an American Lieutenant had as much authority over his men, as a Russian Colonel....that shows me that a free people will always fight better than slaves.
With an apostrophe? In all your reading about WWII history, the plural word Nazis has an apostrophe?