Mikhail Tukhachevsky Quotes
- 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. - View Quote Details on I am convinced that all that is needed in order…
- 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! - View Quote Details on Many desire it. We are a slack people but deeply…
- Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant. - View Quote Details on Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated…
- There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent. - View Quote Details on There can be no doubt that if we had been…
- Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state. - View Quote Details on Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and…
About Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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. In 1935 Tukhachevsky was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union, aged only 42. It was subsequently alleged that during these visits he contacted anti-Stalin Russian exiles and began plotting against Stalin. Tukhachevsky was arrested on May 22, 1937, and charged with organization of “military-Trotskyist conspiracy” and espionage for Nazi Germany. After a secret trial, Tukhachevsky and eight other higher military commanders were convicted, and executed on June 12, 1937.
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