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Semyon Timoshenko Quotes

1895–1970 Russia

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (February 18 O.S. February 6 1895 – March 31, 1970) was a Soviet military commander and senior professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

Russia
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Also known as: Timoshenko, Semyon

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It is possible that the Germans will attack, and it is necessary that the fleet be in readiness.

The Red Army must keep its powder dry and be in constant mobilization and preparedness.

The Russians have learned much in this hard war in which the Finns fought with heroism.

No actions are to be taken against the Germans without our consent.

Peoples of all the warring countries are trying to put an end to the war, to establish peace. And we believe that they will get peace. And the sooner they get peace the better.

We have fine troops, they are inured.

It is necessary to keep in mind the possibility of simultaneously conducting two, if not three, offensive operations of various fronts on a theater of war with the intention of strategically shaking the enemy's entire combat capability as extensively as possible.

To Ralph Parker, about the Nazis. Quoted in "Timoshenko: Marshal of the Red Army" - Page 91 - by Walter Mehring - 1942

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