This man and Mikhail Frunze (“FROONZ-yay”) alternatively name pointy cloth hats that Bolshevik revolutionaries wore to resemble bogatyrs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this mustachioed commander who extolled the valor of cavalry, while his rival Mikhail Tukhachevsky (“too-khuh-CHEFF-skee”) championed tanks. His disastrous defense of Kyiv in 1941 caused the encirclement of over a million Soviet soldiers.
ANSWER: Semyon Budyonny (“bood-YUN-nee”) [or Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny; accept budyonovka or budenovka]
[10e] Budyonny (“bood-YUN-nee”) was so upset that Tukhachevsky wanted to prioritize tanks that he got him killed during this period, in which Joseph Stalin cleared out rivals with alleged Trotskyist ties.
ANSWER: Great Purge [or Great Terror or Bolshoy terror; accept Year of ’37 or Tridtsat Sedmoy God; accept Period of Yezhov or Yezhovshchina; prompt on purge or terror; reject “Bolshevik terror”]
[10m] Frunze and Tukhachevsky earlier devised the “deep battle” strategy to maximize the value of armored vehicles; the Soviets used it to defeat the Kwantung Army at this decisive 1939 battle in Mongolia.
ANSWER: Battle of Khalkhin Gol [accept Nomonhan Incident or Nomonhan jiken]
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