GENERAL DOUGLAS: INTERRUPTED FLIGHT

Genre
History of WWII
Number of episodes
1
Length
44

During the Spanish Civil War, Soviet hero, Yakov Smushkevich - aka General Douglas - became the commander of the Spanish Republican air force. While Hitler personally ordered that he be killed, his plane was never shot down.  Why then, in October of 1941 with Hitlers army closing in on the Kremlin, did Stalin have him shot in a Soviet prison?

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