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economic mobilization First Strategic Echelon of the Red Army, 44, 48,
ammunition production, 129–132 185, 208, 211, 213, 214, 219, 222, 225
Germany’s failure in, 132–133 1st Tank Group (Germany), 201
naval acquisitions, 127–129
Eden, Anthony, 220
18th Army, 200 Five Year Plans, 23
engineers Fokanov, S., 226
as slave labor, 26 forced deportations, 256
in weapons development, 18 forced labor
Er-2 bomber, 69 collectivization as, 26–27
Eremenko, A. I., 212 of engineers, 26
espionage. See Soviet intelligence in industrialization, 24
Estonia, 4, 144, 150 in Spanish Civil War, 101–102
Ezhovshchina, 202 fortified regions. See also security pale
arms production for, 173
Fackel, Die ( e Torch), 4 border reconfigurations and, 174
factory construction, U.S. role in, 25–26. See also defined, 171
economic mobilization in Far East, 272
Far East campaign German, 175–176
airborne assault troops in, 274 main fighting unit of, 172
as blitzkrieg, 275 in offensive war, 176
fortified regions in, 272 pillboxes in, 172
Japanese resistance in, 273–274 Soviet destruction of, 174
Japanese surrender, 274 Stalin Line vs. Maginot Line, 172–173
logistics in, 270, 274 48th Rifle Corps, 198
naval action in, 274 Fourth Directorate of the Red Army, 11, 101
Soviet gains resulting from, 274–275 France
surprise attack in, 271–272 in Mein Kampf, 21
tanks in, 269 post-war interests of, 16
troop transfers to, 269–270 Franco, Francisco, 98
U.S. assistance to Soviets in, 270–271 Frunze, Michael, 179
Far Eastern Construction Trust, 24 fuel supplies, 215–216, 249. See also oil supplies
fascism, German Communist Party on, 30–31 Future War, e (Sikorsky), 224
Fedorenko, I.N., 222
Feduninsky, I.I., 213 Galaktionov, S. G., 198
field artillery, 241 Galitsky, K. N., 48, 255
5th Army, 277 Gareev, Makhmut, 230, 231, 271
fighter aircraft. See also specific platforms Gaus, Friedrich, 283–284
comparison of German and Soviet, 70–71 Gay, G., 93
in strategic aviation, 61 General of the Army, 119
Finland Genghis Khan, 52
planned Communist takeover of, 137 German Communist Party
security pale in, 165 alliance with Nazis, 13
Soviet demands for Karelian Isthmus, 136–137 attempted revolution by, 11, 12–15
Soviet-German War and, 254 German Defeat near Moscow (film), 265
strategic importance of, 149–150 German embassy, 244
Winter War in German-Russian phrase book, 258
as disinformation campaign, 145 German Social Democrats
Finnish defense in, 140–141 Communist party’s policy against, 30–31
German assessment of, 145 Stalin’s efforts to destroy, 28
natural resources and, 148–149 German-Soviet military cooperation, 17–18
partisan units in, 169 German war games, 187–189
pillbox fortifications, 142–144 Germany
pretext for, 137–138 chronic petroleum shortages in, 159
Soviet inconsistencies in, 144 elections of 1932, 29–31
Soviet plan S.3-20 and, 150 funding of Bolsheviks by, 2–3
Soviet weaknesses revealed by, 140 intelligence on preparedness of, 244–250
weather conditions in, 140–141 Spanish Civil War and, 98
1st Far Eastern Front, 271 strikes in
1st German Tank Group, 228–229 during 1932 elections, 31