Semyon Timoshenko Quotes

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. February 1895 – 31. March 1970
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Famous Semyon Timoshenko Quotes

“The Russians have learned much in this hard war in which the Finns fought with heroism.”

Quoted in "The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland" - Page 146 - by Eloise Engle, Eloise Paananen, Lauri Paananen - History - 1992

“The Red Army must keep its powder dry and be in constant mobilization and preparedness.”

Quoted in "Soviet Politics at Home and Abroad" - Page 414 - by Frederick Lewis Schuman - History - 1946

“Peoples of all the warring countries are trying to put an end to the war, to establish peace. And we believe that they will get peace. And the sooner they get peace the better.”

Quoted in "The American review on the Soviet Union" - Page 10 - by American Russian Institute - 1938

“We have fine troops, they are inured.”

Quoted in "Timoshenko: Marshal of the Red Army" - Page 89 - by Walter Mehring - 1942

“We'll spin them out like a bobbin thread.”

To Ralph Parker, about the Nazis. Quoted in "Timoshenko: Marshal of the Red Army" - Page 91 - by Walter Mehring - 1942

Semyon Timoshenko Quotes

“It is possible that the Germans will attack, and it is necessary that the fleet be in readiness.”

Quoted in "The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad" - Page 33 - by Harrison Evans Salisbury - 1972

“No actions are to be taken against the Germans without our consent.”

Quoted in "Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front" - Page 107 - by Constantine Pleshakov - 2005

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