The importance of the Far East Front gave Blyukher a certain degree of immunity from Stalin's purge of Red Army command, which had begun in 1937 with the execution of Mikhail Tukhachevsky--in fact, Blyukher had been a member of the tribunal that convicted Tukhachevsky.
The importance of the Far East Front gave Blyukher a certain degree of immunity from Stalin's purge of Red Army command. Stalin's purge of Red Army command had begun in 1937 with the execution of Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Blyukher had been a member of the tribunal. This was in fact. This tribunal convicted Tukhachevsky.