
ll the non-Stalinist versions concur in the following: the generals did indeed plan a coup d'état.Lazar Kaganovich - Quoted in "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar," - page 222 - by Simon Sebag Montefiore.Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.Quote from Harpal Brar's Perestroika - The complete collapse of revisionism, page 161.
Alexander Worth in his book Moscow 41. The Czechs did not fail to report this to Kremlin, and that was the end of Tukhachevsky - and so many of his followers. And the Chechs told me the extraordinary story of Tukhachevsky's visit to Prague, when towards the end of a banquet - he had got rather drunk - he blurted out that an agreement with Hitler was the only hope for both Czechoslovakia and Russia. What did Tukhachevsky stand for? People of the French Deuxieme Buereau told me long ago that Tukhachevsky was pro-German. I am also pretty sure that the purge in the Red Army had a great deal to do with Stalin's belief in an imminent war with Germany. Pastor, Stanley Hoffmann - Political Science - 1999 Quoted in "A century's journey: how the great powers shape the world" - by Robert A. There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent. Quoted in "The Red Army" - by Michel Berchin, Eliahu Ben-Horin - 1942 I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. Should there be a revolution, only God knows where it will end. We are a slack people but deeply destructive. I certainly have enough self-confidence.I told myself that I shall either be a general at thirty, or that I shall not be alive by then. I am convinced that all that is needed in order to achieve what I want is bravery and self-confidence. After a secret trial, Tukhachevsky and eight other higher military commanders were convicted, and executed on June 12, 1937. Tukhachevsky was arrested on May 22, 1937, and charged with organization of "military-Trotskyist conspiracy" and espionage for Nazi Germany. It was subsequently alleged that during these visits he contacted anti-Stalin Russian exiles and began plotting against Stalin.
In 1935 Tukhachevsky was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union, aged only 42. Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky ( Febru– June 12, 1937) was a Soviet military commander, chief of the Red Army (1925–1928), and one of the most prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s. I am convinced that all that is needed in order to achieve what I want is bravery and self-confidence.