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Starchak, I. G., 75 in Far East campaign, 269
Starinov, I. G., 162, 169, 170 German, 56
steel shortages, 146 heavy, 46–47, 55
Stefanovsky, P. M., 245 in invasion of Romania, 154–155
Steppe military district, 245 mass production of, 44, 45, 89–90
Stoebe, Else, 244 in Operation Barbarossa, 240–241
Stoman, E., 35 operational requirements for, 87–89
strategic aviation. See also specific platforms pre-war number of, 50
air superiority and, 66–67 in 9th Army, 196–197
arguments against, 38 Tukhachevski’s proposed reforms for, 86–91
BM series rocket artillery systems, 58–59 U.S. tank forces, 53–54
fighter aircraft in, 61 Tashkent destroyer leader, 128
German, 39, 63–64 Taylor, John V. R., 32
in Operation Barbarossa, 241, 242 TB-3 bomber, 69–70
light bomber role in, 61–62 TB-7 bomber
Pearl Harbor attack as example of, 62–63 assessment of, 32
Soviet capabilities in, 32, 37 failure to mass produce, 34–35
TB-7 bomber in high-altitude flight by, 33
assessment of, 32 opponents of, 38
failure to mass produce, 34–35 strategic uses of, 37
high-altitude flight by, 33 30th Irkutsk Mountain Rifle Division, 197–198
opponents of, 38 Tiger tank, 46
strategic uses of, 37 Timoshenko, S. K., 38, 150, 162, 183, 186, 209
strategic resources. See natural resources topographic maps, 258–259
strategy games, 186–189 Trans-Baikal Front, 271, 272, 273
Strelchenko, V. I., 60 Triandaphillov, V. K., 38
Su-2 aircraft Tripartite Pact, 181
machine gun for, 64–65 Trotsky, Lev Davydovich
Pearl Harbor attack as model for, 62–63 on communism in Asia, 5–6
pilots training for, 65 on European revolution, 1
Project Ivanov and, 60 exile of, 179, 180
uses of, 59 on German revolution, 23
submachine gun, 62 murder of, 178
submarines, 127, 148, 253 in Russian civil war, 178–179
Sukhoi, Pavel Osipovich, 36, 59, 61 on Stalin’s aid to Hitler, 20
Sviridov, A. A., 255–256, 256 on Stalin’s objectives, 103
synthetic fuels, 158 Stalin’s use of, 180–181
Tschechowa, Olga, 244
T-28 tank, 41, 42 Tukhachevski, Mikhail
T-34 tank, 42–46, 56 accusations against, 93–94
T-35 tank, 46 as author, 85
T-100 tank, 46 background of, 81–82
T-37A tank, 53, 54–56 hostage taking by, 84
T-IIIJ tank, 51 in invasion of Poland, 8, 9, 84–85
tank armor, 51 in modernization of, 85–91
tank engines, 42, 51 purge of, 81, 91
tank factories, 26 representative combat orders of, 82–83
tank formations, 240–241 in Russian civil war, 82–84
tank guns, 43, 47, 51, 117 self-promotion by, 92–93
tank school, 18 in suppression of workers’ strikes, 11
tank tracks, 52–53 on WWI fronts, 85
tanks. See also specific platforms Tulenev, I. V., 185, 193
airborne delivery of, 76 Tupolev, A., 26, 35, 214
amphibious, 53–57 Turovsky, S. A., 93
anti-tank defenses, 173 Tvardovsky, Alexander, 144
in Battle of Khalkhin-Gol, 115 12th Army, 198–199
in blitzkrieg, 240 28th Mountain Rifle Division, 200
BT “Christie” family of, 50–53 22nd Army, 213
comparison of German and Soviet, 41–42, 44– 24th Army, 225, 226
45, 48, 86–87 20th Mountain Army, 241