“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
Semyon Timoshenko: 10 quotes0 likes
Famous Semyon Timoshenko Quotes
Autumn, 1941. Quoted in "The Great Offensive: The Strategy of Coalition Warfare" - Page 116 - by Max Werner, Alexander Schriffin, Heinz Norden, Ruth Norden - 1943
“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
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
Quoted in "Timoshenko: Marshal of the Red Army" - Page 130 - by Walter Mehring - 1942
Quoted in "The Evolution of Soviet Operational Art" - Page 89 - by David M. Glantz, Harold Steven Orenstein - 1995
“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
