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.

Ludo martens another view of stalin