Konstantin Rokossovsky Quotes

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky was a Soviet officer of Polish origin who became Marshal of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Poland and served as Poland's Defence Minister from 1949 until his removal in 1956 during the Polish October. He was among the most prominent Red Army commanders of World War II, especially renowned for his planning and executing of Operation Bagration, one of the most decisive Red Army successes of the Second World War.

✵ 9. December 1896 – 3. August 1968
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Famous Konstantin Rokossovsky Quotes

“I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.”

Quoted in "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev" - by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev - Heads of state - 2007

“The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!”

Quoted in "Current Biography" - Page 562 - by H.W. Wilson Company - 1945

“In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian.”

Quoted in "Rokossowski - How Much of a Pole? - by Wiesław Białkowski, 1994.

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