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View submission: Tuesday Trivia | History's Greatest Betrayals
Really no end to stories like that. Rokossovsky was a victim of the purges in the 1930s. Imprisoned, he faced beatings, torture, and mock executions, and then suddenly was released, rehabilitated and found himself a Colonel commanding a Red Army Corps during the invasion of Bessarabia three months after release. He had to wear a set of false, metal teeth to replace the nine he lost.
Comment by DravisBixel at 02/06/2015 at 21:43 UTC
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That is what gets me. So many people came back and were loyal supporters of the system that betrayed them.