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Semyon Timoshenko
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“It is possible that the Germans will attack, and it is necessary that the fleet be in readiness.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad" - Page 33 - by Harrison Evans Salisbury - 1972
“No actions are to be taken against the Germans without our consent.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front" - Page 107 - by Constantine Pleshakov - 2005
“We have fine troops, they are inured.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Timoshenko: Marshal of the Red Army" - Page 89 - by Walter Mehring - 1942
“We'll spin them out like a bobbin thread.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Ralph Parker, about the Nazis. Quoted in "Timoshenko: Marshal of the Red Army" - Page 91 - by Walter Mehring - 1942
“We intend to check up on the fitness of our small units...If each such particle attains real efficiency and brings genuine military skill to our large units, our troops, should they be called upon to fight, will carry out their operations without sustaining heavy losses.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Timoshenko: Marshal of the Red Army" - Page 130 - by Walter Mehring - 1942
“It is necessary to keep in mind the possibility of simultaneously conducting two, if not three, offensive operations of various fronts on a theater of war with the intention of strategically shaking the enemy's entire combat capability as extensively as possible.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The Evolution of Soviet Operational Art" - Page 89 - by David M. Glantz, Harold Steven Orenstein - 1995
“We are harassing them and will go on harassing them until they are totally exhausted. This is not merely tactics of a definite kind—it is a strategy with a broad perspective, directed at definitive and total victory. The Russian defence always had preparation for the counter-offensive as its aim. The Russian war plan here follows the commandmant of Clausewitz, "Swift and powerful transition to the attack—the lightning sword of retribution — that is the most brilliant part of the defense.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autumn, 1941. Quoted in "The Great Offensive: The Strategy of Coalition Warfare" - Page 116 - by Max Werner, Alexander Schriffin, Heinz Norden, Ruth Norden - 1943
“The Russians have learned much in this hard war in which the Finns fought with heroism.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland" - Page 146 - by Eloise Engle, Eloise Paananen, Lauri Paananen - History - 1992
“Peoples of all the warring countries are trying to put an end to the war, to establish peace. And we believe that they will get peace. And the sooner they get peace the better.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The American review on the Soviet Union" - Page 10 - by American Russian Institute - 1938
“The Red Army must keep its powder dry and be in constant mobilization and preparedness.”
Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Soviet Politics at Home and Abroad" - Page 414 - by Frederick Lewis Schuman - History - 1946