“The fate of world revolution is being decided in the west: the way leads over the corpse of Poland to a universal conflagration.... On to Wilno, Minsk, and Warsaw – forward!”
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later executed during the Moscow trials of 1936–1938.
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politics · Russian and Soviet military leader (1893–1937) · military officer · politician · also Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, Tukhachevsky
Born 16 February 1893 · Died 12 June 1937 · Q142141
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2026· 2 entries
“de-europeanised and threw Russia into barbarism”
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1989· 1 entry
The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union announced that new evidence had been found in Stalin's archives indicating German intelligence's intentions to fabricate disinformation about Tukhachevsky with the
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1957· 1 entry
Tukhachevsky and his codefendants were declared innocent of all charges and were rehabilitated
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1956· 2 entries
The NKVD defector Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov published an article in Life with "The Sensational Secret Behind the Damnation of Stalin" as title
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Tukhachevsky was officially considered a fascist and fifth columnist
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1937· 6 entries
Died 1937-06-12.
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The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union convened a special military tribunal to try Tukhachevsky and eight generals for treason
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And brought back to Moscow in a prison van
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To 1939 made "deep operation" briefly fall from favor
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During the military purges of 1936–1938, led by Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov
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“There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.”
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1936· 2 entries
In the Provisional Field Regulations of 1936
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Shostakovich's music was under attack after Pravda denounced his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
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1935· 1 entry
Tukhachevsky was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union when he was 42
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1931· 1 entry
After Stalin had accepted the need for an industrialized military, Tukhachevsky was given a leading role in reforming the army
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1930· 2 entries
This was perhaps too outrageous even for the Bolsheviks
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The Joint State Political Directorate forced two officers to testify that Tukhachevsky was plotting to overthrow the Politburo via a coup d'état
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1929· 1 entry
Began receiving denunciations from senior officers who disapproved of Tukhachevsky's tactical theories
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1928· 1 entry
And that he was a German agent co-operating with Nikolai Bukharin to seize power
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1925· 1 entry
And subsequently played music together at Tukhachevsky's home (Tukhachevsky played the violin)
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1919· 1 entry
And he led the campaign to capture Siberia from the anticommunist White forces of Aleksandr Kolchak
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1918· 2 entries
In his last overt display of neopaganism, Tukhachevsky drew up a project for destruction of Christianity and restoration of Slavic paganism
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“we wanted to shoot en masse.”
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1917· 1 entry
Tukhachevsky joined the Bolsheviks and went on to play a key role in the Red Army despite his noble ancestry
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1912· 1 entry
Moved on to the Aleksandrovskoye Military School, where he graduated in 1914
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-02-16.
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