“If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones.”

— Georgy Zhukov

Quoted in "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" - Page 3 - by Alexander N. Yakovlev, Anthony Austin - Political Science - 2002 -

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Marshal of the Soviet Union 1896–1974

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