"A shark has appeared and he wants to devour me. Either he devours me or I eat him. The latter is very unlikely."
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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.
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Vasily Blyukher
Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher (December 1, 1889 – November 9, 1938), also spelled Blücher, was a Russian-Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union from 1935 until his death (under torture by the NKVD) in 1938.
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