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.
• 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!
• There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.
• Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.
• Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.

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