Vasily Blyukher Quotes

Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher also spelled Bliukher, Blücher, etc. was a Soviet military commander.



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✵ 19. November 1889 – 9. November 1938
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Famous Vasily Blyukher Quotes

“War is not included in the Second Five-Year Plan.”

Blyukher at the XVII Congress of the CPSU(b), 8 February 1934 http://www.hrono.ru/vkpb_17/25_5.html

“A shark has appeared and he wants to devour me. Either he devours me or I eat him. The latter is very unlikely.”

Blyukher describing Lev Mekhlis to his wife, shortly before his arrest in 1938. Quoted in Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar.

“War as a whole, and each operation taken separately, are first of all mathematics and calculations.”

Quoted in Jonathan Fenby; Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost

“What dirt, what bitterness, what meanness…”

Blyukher during his interrogation by the NKVD in 1938. Quoted in Paweł Wieczorkiewicz, Noty biograficzne w: Fenomen Stalina, Warsaw, 1988.

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