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

— Semyon Timoshenko

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

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Soviet military commander 1895–1970

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