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"What dirt, what bitterness, what meanness..."
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Vasily Blyukher"The raid made by Comrade Blyukhers forces under impossible conditions can only be equated with Suvorovs crossings in Switzerland."
Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
"What dirt, what bitterness, what meanness..."
"War is not included in the Second Five-Year Plan."
"An outstanding Russian general as well as a reasonable man and a good friend. What was most unusual about him was that he had none of the traits associated with Bolsheviks."
"War as a whole, and each operation taken separately, are first of all mathematics and calculations."
"Thousands of miles from Moscow, commanded - apparently with a free hand - by the most capable of all Soviet generals, Marshal Vasili Galen-Blücher, the Far Eastern Army is easily the most efficient and the most formidable military force at the command of the Soviet government."