Changes in the political configuration of the
Soviet Union's western frontier, which occurred in
1939-1940, brought the necessity of numerous
corrections in the Soviet strategic defence plans.
Since the spring of 1940 those corrections had been
made at the General Staff, and involved Marshal
Boris Shaposhnikov (Chief of the General Staff),
Gen. Nikolay Vatutin (Chief of Operations of the
General Staff), Gen. Alexander Vasilevskiy (Deputy
Chief of Operations of the General Staff), Gen.
Kirill Meretskov (Deputy People's Commissar for
Defence), Gen. Gherman Malandin (Deputy People's
Commissar for Defence), Gen. Andrei Anisov (Deputy
People's Commissar for Defence), Gen. Georgiy Zhukov
(Commander of the Kiev Special Military District),
and many lower-ranking officers of the General
Staff.
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