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Mathias Rust's plane just prior to illegally landing in Red Square, Moscow, in the Soviet Union, 1987
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I get that a bunch of officers getting removed at once is going to draw some comparisons but it still seems weird to mention it in the same breath as the Great Purge
I think they compared it since they're, well, comparable. Not in motivation or effect, but it was still the largest military purge since Stalin.
Militaries can end up with very entrenched officer corps. It may not have been as brutal as the Great Purge, but it likely had similarly massive effects on the institutions of the Soviet military.