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Mikhail Tukhachevsky Quotes

1893–1937 Russia

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (February 16 [O.S. February 4] 1893 – June 12, 1937) was a Soviet military commander, chief of the Red Army (1925–1928), and one of the most prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s.

Russia
Military leaders

Also known as: Tukhachevsky, Mikhail

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There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

I am convinced that all that is needed in order to achieve what I want is bravery and self-confidence. I certainly have enough self-confidence...I told myself that I shall either be a general at thirty, or that I shall not be alive by then.

Many desire it. We are a slack people but deeply destructive. Should there be a revolution, only God knows where it will end. I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. We need a despot!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mikhail Tukhachevsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.