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S/H/170. What impact did the Purges have on Soviet foreign policy?

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2010
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Due to the mass execution of its own citizens in the 1930's, Russia faced various problems concerning its foreign policy. The essay describes how The Purges damaged the diplomatic structures required to secure a complex collective security agreement with Western powers, and that they also weakened the strategic value of the Red Army as a reliable military ally to Britain and France. Soviet fighting capacity was reduced to such an extent that it would have been unable to fulfil any major military commitments or be effective in any anti-Nazi alliance.

 

KEYWORDS: Soviet, USSR, Russia, Purges, foreign policy, Western, the west, red army, military, Britain, UK, France!,

 
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