Marshal Voroshilov bitterly denounced foreign critics who claimed the/Red Army had been weakened by recent purges.
"The Fascists would have been happier if base traitors like Tuchachevsky, Yegorov and Orlov continued to operate in our midst, selling both our Army and our people to the enemies.
"The organizers of the World War can carry on their black deeds infinitely better if they have a reliable agency in foreign armies. We could have ignored these insinuations of Fascist dogs about the weakness of the Red Army if some Fascist aggressors had not drawn some practical conclusions from this.
*"I'have in mind those gentlemen who, being fed by stories of weak-mess n the Red Army, hastened to take advantage of a convenient opportunity' to move against Lake Khasan. The results of this attempt are common knowledge. If the object lesson at Lake Khasan was insufficient, our Red Army is ready at any moment to repeat this lesson on a large scale and in a manner more body who is
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