Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

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

Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.

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 reg…