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

— Vasily Blyukher

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

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Soviet military commander 1889–1938

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