Russian Military Leader Quotes

Alexander Suvorov

Ivan Konev

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Sergei Akhromeyev

Matvei Zakharov

Attention must be given to the study of the given operations. Their study with due allowance made for the existing means of warfare will make it possible to reach a number of useful theoretical conclusions for conducting operations in the initial phase of a war.

Matvei Zakharov

I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.

There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.

Alexander Suvorov

We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.

Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?... The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless.

Sergei Akhromeyev