"We will secure peace, over the corpses of the counterrevolutionary command staff if necessary."
— Nikolai Krylenko

January 1, 1970

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RevolutionariesPoliticians from RussiaPoliticians from the Soviet UnionJustice ministersMinisters of Russia and the Soviet Union
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Krylenko after being named commander-in-chief on the Russian Army in November 1917. Quoted in Brian Taylor, Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000