Army Quote by Mikhail Tukhachevsky

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

— Mikhail Tukhachevsky

It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He…

— Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

— Mikhail Tukhachevsky

“By 1944, three years later, the ordeal and the turnabout had both been spectacular. The Soviet Union had lost as many as 20 million…

— C.J. Chivers

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

“The biggest mistake made by German commanders was to have underestimated ‘Ivan’, the ordinary Red Army soldier. They quickly found that surrounded or outnumbered…

— Antony Beevor

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

...Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

— Karl Donitz

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the…

— Anonymous

“The USSR, which they'd begun to renovate and improve at about the time when Tatarsky decided to change his profession, improved so much that…

— Victor Pelevin

The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But…

— Lavrentiy Beria

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that…

— Gerd von Rundstedt