"I am convinced that all that is needed in order to achieve what I want is bravery and self-confidence. I certainly ha…"

"Many desire it. We are a slack people but deeply destructive. Should there be a revolution, only God knows where it w…"

"There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the e…"

"Soviet preparations in the Far East, and the more general build-up of the Red Army, were well covered by Japanese int…"

"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 w…"

"Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack."

"[A]ll the non-Stalinist versions concur in the following: the generals did indeed plan a coup d'état... The main part…"

"Sedov (Trotsky's son) spoke a lot about the necessity of the maximum, the closest possible connections with Tukhachev…"

"An atmosphere of extreme tension reigned during this period; it was necessary to act without mercy. I think that it w…"

"A niechaj narodowie wżdy postronni znają, iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają."