“War is not included in the Second Five-Year Plan.”
Blyukher at the XVII Congress of the CPSU(b), 8 February 1934 http://www.hrono.ru/vkpb_17/25_5.html
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Blyukher describing Lev Mekhlis to his wife, shortly before his arrest in 1938. Quoted in Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar.
Quoted in Jonathan Fenby; Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
“What dirt, what bitterness, what meanness…”
Blyukher during his interrogation by the NKVD in 1938. Quoted in Paweł Wieczorkiewicz, Noty biograficzne w: Fenomen Stalina, Warsaw, 1988.
